What is needed to get jellyfin running as a server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by LifeOfChance@lemmy.world to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

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I'm working on learning about servers and such but it's a lot to take in. I'm looking to get a 5tb hard drive and install it into a network attached storage tower. What else would be needed to make this work? Links provided are what I'm thinking

QNAP TS-233-US 2 Bay Affordable Desktop NAS with ARM Cortex-A55 Quad-core Processor and 2 GB DDR4 RAM (Diskless) https://a.co/d/725WsHM

Seagate Portable 5TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox - 1-Year Rescue Service (STGX5000400), Black https://a.co/d/fClqYLT

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[-] Burn1ngBull3t@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Hello ! First question would be : why buy an external drive if you are buying a NAS in the first place ?

Just in case: there are 2 slots available in the NAS you sent, meaning you could buy 2 internal drives for its storage.

On the hosting part, Jellyfin might be able to run judging by the specifications of the NAS. However, you have to take into account if the NAS operating system can run it (maybe there is an app store for it like Synology) and also media transcoding might be limited (to easily stream around your house 4K content for exemple)

[-] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I honestly thought external drives were just plugged into the case and could be quickly popped out and used as an internal. Someone else provided a really indepth guide for me and this NAS isn't capable of using jellyfin only plex so the plan is to go with PI and get that working

[-] peasntanks@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Some can be. Didn't check to see if this was one of them. It's called 'Shucking' and there is a niche for it. Personally I don't think its worth it to go through all that work to research devices, go through all the effort to shuck it (and hope you're lucky!) just to save a couple bucks. https://www.howtogeek.com/324769/how-to-get-premium-hard-drives-for-cheap-by-shucking-external-drives/