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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Minipc is probably going to be the cheapest and most power efficient option. Check out the Minisforum Refurbished page.

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Would you recommend an AMD or Intel?

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Whichever really. AMD will give the best overall performance for your needs, though Intel chips IF they have QuickSync can have some hardware acceleration benefits with respect to transcoding.

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Intel for QuickSync and low idle power.

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