Greetings, I am in the process of learning self-hosting. Recently built a pc and its running as my Jellyfin client along with a Android TV box I flashed LineageOs onto. I grabbed a Lenovo mini pc, installed proxmox and I now have a few LXCs running, with one being Jellyfin. Was wondering what most people used as a solution for file storage on a budget? Was looking at getting a 2-bay Ugreen NAS, but then I heard the NFS latency can be a bit much- also read that an Intel processor is necessary on these for transcoding and swapping OSes, which ups the cost a bit. I’ve heard of some people using the Lenovo mini PCs and just attaching external storage. I’m still new at selfhosting and am wondering what would be the best route for me, don’t really like tinkering with hardware a ton and was hoping to use an open source NAS like trueNAS and not some proprietary system. Thanks!
I don’t do transcoding on my Jellyfin server, so a SBC works great. I have an odroid HC4 and it works great. If you can use the Jellyfin client on your TV box, the server doesn’t typically have to transcode anything. Works great for me at least.
Oh I haven’t heard of this, thanks for the suggestion! Seems to tick all the boxes