Well I’m just about fed up with streaming bullshit. I currently have a home server that’s just a raspberry pi4 with a bunch of docker containers and it served my light usage well.
But with transcoding on Jellyfin I’ll be needing some more power. And a bunch of storage. So wanting to perhaps build a new little server.
CPU requirements aren’t high at all. Need to transcode maybe 2 concurrent 4K streams, A cheap discrete GPU or a CPU with a decent enough iGPU could handle this. Other applications are basically negligible, like Vaultwarden and PiHole, torrent, using as a general file storage server.
I also recently acquired a mini PC which is plenty powerful, but doesn’t have any way of adding a bunch of drives. So another option is setting up a pure NAS and just using the mini PC as the server. It’s got an i7 10700T and iris 630 iGPU.
I’ve been using Linux and self hosting basic things for years, but I’m pretty new to this level of hardware and little experience with RAID.
Budget: ~$500ish - storage goal: 12+ TB
I pre-processed my library since I know exactly what devices I’ll be using to play my library, so I just found a common format for audio, video, and subtitles.
Then with the help of jellyfin’s transcoding logs I manually created the commands for non-real-time transcoding (depending on your hardware this new command could not make much difference in processing time, but it’ll definitely make a difference in the quality of the output).
With that now I can use rclone to upload my files to a cheap S3 compatible service and just mount it in any computer for jellyfin to read.
I’m using iDrive e2. Although I’m only using a few TB while I buy a HDD, so for a dozen or more, I’ll definitely will go directly to buy my own hardware.