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I hate to ask, but help me spec a build please (self.selfhosted)
submitted 9 months ago by WoodenBleachers to c/selfhosted
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Background:

Over Covid, I got really into high quality music and purchased the best headphones I could afford (ATH-MX50) and listened frequently. Once I discovered Jellyfin, a whole new world opened up to me and I began to self-host movies as well as my FLAC library.

Present: My parents want to cut the cord and I would like to help them by setting up a server for them. I’m techy and can handle some troubleshooting.

Requirements:

  • I’d like for it to have at least 5 profiles, no more than 2 concurrent streams
  • I’d like to add things to a “queue” from my phone and manage my downloads like that
  • 4k media, perhaps transcodes to 1080p, but the local media is 100% 4k
  • Be able to SSH (or alternative) for remote debugging

Questions: What hardware should I buy? I’ve built PCs, so mostly, what cpu and how much storage should I go for? I can afford quite a bit, so I’d like to buy the right tool for the job once with upgrades to storage as needed. I know Jellyfin handles profiles, does Jellyseer handle the ability to automate downloads? Is this something the .arr stack can do?

Thank you for all your help, any advice is VERY appreciated. I just want to help my parents cut the cord

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[–] toasteecup 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If you need 4k you're going to need a shit ton of storage. If you go for the good quality profile 4ks you're looking at 50GB easily per file.

Sonarr and Radarr can fetch downloads, yes. You'll need to configure your indexers and then you'll need to set up your download clients. I use a torrent server and sabnzbd.

You'll need a graphics card that can handle transcoding 4k I'm not sure which is best. Ram and CPU won't be the biggest concerns for you.

[–] WoodenBleachers 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, we tend to watch things once then not again, I figure 12TB across 4 drives should hold that pretty well? I just want a buffer of like, 5 episodes per show. Once watched, auto-delete. This should be enough storage no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Sonarr and radarr can download files, but you cant set it to not download more than 5 episodes unless you do it manually. There is an arr app that auto deletes files older than X days (I forgot the name), but you also have to delete torrent files to get more space (this part can be done by setting up qbittorrent to auto delete after some time, but then you might have issues with your trackers unless you are using public or usenet).

Jellyseer is just amazing GUI that can be used instead of loging in to radarr and sonarr, allowing you to press just one button to request media.

I think arr stack is amazing for downloading (automated or manual), but you might need extra thinkering to not fill up your storage. 12 TB is more than enough for me, but I only use 1080p.

My 12 TB is filling up around 1TB a month, so I will just free up 5-6 TB manually every 6 months. Well, thats the plan at least, time will tell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If that's the case, then just set up a pipeline to pre-transcode your 4k content to 1080p, so your server doesn't have to handle that on the fly.

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