Best SBC for servarr and jellyfin?
I have sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, jellyfin and qbittorrent-nox running on my computer. I want to move it to an sbc so it can run 24h/day and draw less power.
All my media are on a M.2 drive so it's important to have a way to somehow connect it to that sbc.
Fyi I also intend to run AdGuard
What sbc do you recommend for such a setup? Do I have to wait for RPi 5 or are there better alternatives? Of course the best value for money
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If you have the cash: Get a (used) NUC or mini-pc.
You'll benefit more from the RAM and x86 and you can transcode.
I think, I have to save a default-comment for this. Old thin clients are incredibly cheap, small and full blown x86 machines.
Used mini PC FTW
I 2nd this.
I'm running mine on Pi4. It works, but I wouldn't really recommend it. It needs frequent reboots and tends to choke on anything over 1080.
I have one of these and it works great. Intel CPU means great hardware transcoding support on Jellyfin, but it has very low power usage.
I ended up getting myself an old Chromebox CN-62 and putting MrChromebox Bios on it. It ended up being at least twice the speed of a Pi 4, and is a new enough generation intel chip to have QuickSync on it. I ended up getting the chromebox for like $35 on ebay. Which was subsequently also cheaper than any of the available SBCs as well. Plus it already came with 16gb storage, and removable/upgradeable SODIMMs. (2gb of ram)
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