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Pi or Nuc (self.homelab)

submitted 2 years ago by JasonWeen to c/[email protected]

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Hi I am currently struggling with deciding between Pis (all variants e.g. Orange Pi) and Nucs as I can't find any for a reasonable price. Do you guys have any recommandation for me? German/European Stores maybe? I am looking for the best efficency to performance ratio for a low price. Basically just small computing units that I can cluster ideally in a 1U Rackmount.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What do you intend to use it for? I replaced my ryzen box with an OrangePi5 for power consumption reasons. Obviously the performance is not even close but turns out it was enough for Jellyfin, torrenting, pihole, and a Minecraft server.

[–] JasonWeen 1 points 2 years ago

Just small demanding services as a pihole, pfsense, openvpn. Stuff that permanently needs to run. Maybe a website or a minecraft server but probably not.

I was actually looking for the orange pi (learned about them from ltt) but I can't find any rackmount (I want everything nice and clean in there) and reasonable prices.

Also I don't think I can use raspberry pi rackmount can I?

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

I'm curious, can it handle transcoding? using the RPi 4 while direct playing works great, but for transcoding not so much... I see the OrangePi5 8GB is currently at 85$ looks like a good deal to me. The MC server would be another plus.

Do you know other alternatives like the OrangePi?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't managed to get the GPU properly working when passed through to a Jellyfin docker container, I think you need to recompile ffmpeg or something. If you can get that working I imagine the G610 would be great for it.

Software transcoding though has been great, I don't need it too often but it's a lot beefier than the Pi4 so I've had no troubles.

I don't know much about other alternatives, but my understanding is they'll mostly be between the performance of the Pi and any RK3588 board like the OrangePi. When you're looking for one, make sure it has an armbian image.

Edit: I managed to get hardware transcoding using docker.io/jjm2473/jellyfin-mpp.