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What is the cheapest setup that works for your Plex/Jellyfin setup? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have a QNAP TS-253D (Celeron J4125, 4GB RAM) hosting all my files. I used to have Jellyfin running on it in a Docker container, but it performed really poorly (which is expected ig). It used to take forever to stream a 1080p movie, and seeking back and forth would freeze the whole thing.

Then I moved my Jellyfin setup to my desktop PC (i9-10850k, 16GB RAM, 2080 Super), the files are still on my NAS. It performs much better now, streaming is a breeze and it almost never freezes or anything.

Problem is, it eats up all my RAM. My RAM usage is 99% almost all the time someone uses Jellyfin and it significantly hampers my regular work on my desktop. I can upgrade my RAM to 32 or 64 GB, but would that solve the problem?

If not, what is the cheapest mini PC or home setup that I can do that'd free up my desktop but still give me similar or at least good enough performance?

Thank you for your advice.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I run Plex on an N100 MiniPC, including hardware transcoding. I have the media in another system running TrueNAS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Transcoding what? UHD? Atmos? Or something else.

I’m looking for a cheap solution since 1 tv in my household needs those files transcoded and my NAS can’t 😞

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

4k x265 down to 1080p (x264). Basically any Intel CPU that supports quicksync can do several simultaneous hardware transcodes.

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