I’m wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I’m not sure which device to use. I’m thinking a raspberry pi but I’m not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems

Edit: so general consensus seems to be, don’t use a pi, it’s not powerful enough

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Consider how many devices will use it at the same time.

    Only you? A pi is fine.

    A few friends too? An old computer with a rough equivilent of i5-2300 with integrated graphics should do the trick. 4GB Ram will do fine.

    A small group that’ll use it constantly? Plug in a GPU that supports hardware encoding, (Some low-end cards like GT 1030 doesnt support this feature, check this properly.) , upgrade RAM a notch more, like 8GB.

    You can scale it higher for more people via logic; you’ll also know how much storage you’ll need; but it’ll be a lot if you want to satisfy a huge group of people.

    • yokonzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Me and my girlfriend but honestly I think only one instance will be going at a time

      • nerdschleife@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I use a raspberry pi 4 with 3 simultaneous sessions sometimes. Direct play, it works fine. It can’t transcode at all, though.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Any more recent Intel CPU with quicksync works well too. I have a $100 CAD i3 powering Jellyfin and it’s able to handle ~5 1080p streams going at a time without any issues.