If you don’t mind, which processor do you have? I’ve been thinking of setting up a Jellyfin server too, but I have a G4500 and I’ve always been worried that it can’t handle the load…
Mine is the venerable G3258—the budget overclocking champ in the 4th generation Core family. Runs at 4,4 GHz and handles OpenMediaVault and 19 Docker containers just fine. I think G4500 would be fine, too.
True, the old server parts are dirt cheap if you can source them (theyr’e not really available in my country and importing from China, UK or US would more than double the cost). But they’re also quite power hungry and energy cost has gone up crazy over the past few years. My current setup consumes around 127 W total (overclocked CPU, 3 HDD-s) and it costs me around 20€/month or half my energy bill (small one bedroom apartment with full LED lighting). If I upgrade it’ll probably be cheap current PC hardware which tends to be much more power efficient.
My dream setup is a 16 core ARM CPU with something like 64…128 GB of LPDDR🫠
As I understand it, media streaming isn’t actually that taxing because your server doesn’t actually have to render all of that data, just transfer it; so as long as it can handle a copy operation faster than one second per second, and you’re only watching from one device at a time, it’ll still work.
I haven’t done it, though, so I’m not sure how much overhead Plex/Jellyfin add by way of transcoding.
If you don’t mind, which processor do you have? I’ve been thinking of setting up a Jellyfin server too, but I have a G4500 and I’ve always been worried that it can’t handle the load…
Mine is the venerable G3258—the budget overclocking champ in the 4th generation Core family. Runs at 4,4 GHz and handles OpenMediaVault and 19 Docker containers just fine. I think G4500 would be fine, too.
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True, the old server parts are dirt cheap if you can source them (theyr’e not really available in my country and importing from China, UK or US would more than double the cost). But they’re also quite power hungry and energy cost has gone up crazy over the past few years. My current setup consumes around 127 W total (overclocked CPU, 3 HDD-s) and it costs me around 20€/month or half my energy bill (small one bedroom apartment with full LED lighting). If I upgrade it’ll probably be cheap current PC hardware which tends to be much more power efficient.
My dream setup is a 16 core ARM CPU with something like 64…128 GB of LPDDR🫠
As I understand it, media streaming isn’t actually that taxing because your server doesn’t actually have to render all of that data, just transfer it; so as long as it can handle a copy operation faster than one second per second, and you’re only watching from one device at a time, it’ll still work.
I haven’t done it, though, so I’m not sure how much overhead Plex/Jellyfin add by way of transcoding.