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I’ve been planning out a proxmox server for when I eventually have money. (Shut up. It can happen. Shut up!) but I saw something today that got me thinking. Minisforums makes some pretty nice shit at a reasonable price. The entire minis market has actually become pretty great while I wasn’t looking.

I need proxmox hosting opnsense, frigate, jellyfin, homeassistant, BitTorrent, immich, sunshine, steam, and i2pd.

So there are obvious advantages to building my own shit with a trip to microcenter. But maybe these micro machines could actually handle this shit anymore. Opinions?

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (9 children)

For Frigate you can just add a Coral TPU to offload the heavy lifting but with Jellyfin you'll likely need a GPU/iGPU (Intel) that can handle transcoding. I don't know what specific models you're looking at but you might try to determine their passmark score. I think it's recommended at least 2000 score for a single 1080p transcode. Alternatively you can stick to specific file formats that won't need transcoding but this might be some work.

You could get a used Dell Optiplex micro. They have i3/i5 processors and can be found for around $100. This will at least get you going and you can always build something later.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My jellyfin works just fine with CPU. It's an Intel core 7, not a cheap one, but the GPU is not mandatory

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Your intel core7 has an iGPU which is what QuickSync is. Its one of the best for transcoding. Even without hardware acceleration the Intel CPU will handle this workload just fine but most of these Chinese mini PCs have ARM chips which won't come with these benefits.

Edit: I see these Miniforum PCs do have Intel and AMD chips so I was making an incorrect assumption here.

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