I have a small Ryzen-based server that’s functioning as my NAS as well as hosting various docker services. However, I wanted to start doing more with Jellyfin and my server doesn’t have a GPU for transcoding. I was consider getting an Intel NUC anyhow because I wanted to have some dedicated hardware to run a hypervisor like Proxmox, so I figure I’ll run Jellyfin as a VM and it can pull from my NAS server where the video files are stored.
I’m curious what kind of specs I should be looking for on a NUC and which generation? Here’s some of my rough requirements:
- Running Proxmox with maybe a handful of VMs
- Jellyfin transcoding for no more than 3 simultaneous users, and in reality, 1 on average
- Typically prefer more modern, power-efficient hardware
I just built a new server and installed proxmox on it. I5-14600. I had planned on using an Ubuntu vm running Plex via docker.
Long story short, but ended up scrapping proxmox and going straight Ubuntu server w/Plex in docker. The complexity of getting the igpu to pass thru and manage the resources for Plex and the other random things I plan to load just wasn’t worth it. My goal was to make plex as fast as possible. I have a truenas scale server that has all my media.
I had to install all the intel igpu drivers manually because it wasn’t showing up. Proxmox just didn’t see worth it since everything I wanted to run can exist in a docker container.