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What is the cheapest setup that works for your Plex/Jellyfin setup? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by SirDarknight1@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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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[-] Krieg@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] RoRoo1977@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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 😞

[-] Krieg@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] machetie@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Make sure you get a box that can be upgraded to at least 32GB, made that mistake got the beelink s12 pro, not enough with 16GB.

[-] griphon31@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

16 runs fine for me. I transcode to an SSD and run home assistant and airsonic and emulatorjs and immich and frigate and monitoring software like glances and uptimekuma and and and.

Ram is at 70%, could use more, 8 isn't enough but 16 will get you going

[-] machetie@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I don't want the SSD to die. Transcoding to ram and caching Rclone with buffer to ram also. Have at least 10 users to share with my Plex.

[-] umataro@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Because of jellyfin? Mine is restricted to 3GB and runs happily on raspberry pi 4. I've even had it run on 2GB pi4 and it only struggled occasionally.

[-] discoshanktank@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

if it's just plex i've been running it on an old laptop with 16gb soldered ram and it runs everything without issues

[-] Invayder@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

How do you connect the 2 machines together? This is something I’ve been interested in doing so I can technically keep expanding by adding more “carriers”.

[-] Krieg@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Export the files via SMB on the NAS and mount them on the Plex server.

[-] wally40@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

On Linux, use NFS. SMB is best for Windows, FYI.

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