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[Advice] On Home Server Hardware (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
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I'm looking into to building a small media server. I will be th only user of it. So I don't need the ability to do simultaneous streams. I am planning on running Jellyfin.

Sense I am on a more limited budget I was thinking and older desktop and transcoding my files (on my powerful desktop) to be best supported and play smoothly.

Are there any specific recommendations you guys have for hardware I should keep a look out for that's cheaper or other recommendations for cheap hardware?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

Find a new old-stock laptop from 1 generation ago. Newegg, amaz, ebay. All the cpu power you need, never needs KVM to do hands on tasks. Set the screen to off when lid closed, but never to sleep or hibernate and it's 100% ready. Some commercial series (MSI, Lenovo) have wifi, bt, rj45, and usually a 4g option.

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