I prefer to use the Rpi due to power consumption but I'm worried about RAM usage; I'm currently already using it for pihole, Nextcloud and a Discord bot, taking about 1GB of RAM most of the time. On hindsight I should've bought a 4gb or 8gb model at that time... I plan to use it for maximum 5 people, and probably up to two will be using it at the same time.

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[–] paulie420 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, maybe I can help with a different reply. :P (I didn't know what service you wanted to run on the hardware...)

I ran a RPi (8GB) running BOTH openmediavault (NAS) and PLEX and it chugged along for years of service. I do think your 2GB model will host jellyfin just fine (with NO transcoding, of course) - but you might be able to run a couple more services on the i5... heck, spin up both and see if you notice any big differences between the two.

Let us know where you land after you choose!

[–] IcedCoffeeBitch 1 points 2 years ago

I thought the service was going to be assumed because of the community we are in. But it doesn't matter now.

You were right, actually Jellyfin itself is very very lightweight...as long as I don't do any transcoding. If I do then it starts getting sluggish. And I couldn't get hardware acceleration to work, probably because of what the documentation mentions.

Last night, my movie harddrive appeared to be corrupted so I left it running all night with chkdsk on Windows. If that got fixed, next step would be to check if I don't need any transcoding in the first place in the devices I use. If I do, then I will use the other PC.