I’m wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I’m not sure which device to use. I’m thinking a raspberry pi but I’m not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems
Edit: so general consensus seems to be, don’t use a pi, it’s not powerful enough
Low-end AMD APU will blow any Intel away for this purpose and also have hardware transcoding capabilities.
Per Jellyfin’s hardware guide, that’s only for recent AMD CPUs. If we’re looking at budget options (as OP seems to be heading), then we can go with older, used Intel CPUs.