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Unsure which PC is best to use for a Jellyfin server

So I'm making a Jellyfin server slash NAS (I'm just sticking a 6tb hard drive into it and using it for backups) but I have two old prebuilts. I have a Dell Inspiron 537 (Celeron) and a Dell Optiplex 360 (Core 2 Duo). I also have a Dell Dimension E310 (Pentium 4 HT) (The CPUs are from the sticker on the tower, I don't know the specifics)

 

I've turned the first two on and they appear to be working fine but both gave no display output whatsoever, no signal to the monitor at all. The inspiron definitely worked last time I checked like a year ago, and I completely forgot if the optiplex worked. I haven't even tried to boot the dimension, I got it a few months ago but have been lazy. I want to figure out which computer is worth troubleshooting and getting to work, but don't really know how to figure it out

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1 hour ago, Slimepig Productions said:

So I'm making a Jellyfin server slash NAS (I'm just sticking a 6tb hard drive into it and using it for backups) but I have two old prebuilts. I have a Dell Inspiron 537 (Celeron) and a Dell Optiplex 360 (Core 2 Duo). I also have a Dell Dimension E310 (Pentium 4 HT) (The CPUs are from the sticker on the tower, I don't know the specifics)

 

I've turned the first two on and they appear to be working fine but both gave no display output whatsoever, no signal to the monitor at all. The inspiron definitely worked last time I checked like a year ago, and I completely forgot if the optiplex worked. I haven't even tried to boot the dimension, I got it a few months ago but have been lazy. I want to figure out which computer is worth troubleshooting and getting to work, but don't really know how to figure it out

Man, those are not new machines… when people say you can run a NAS on a potato, they usually at least mean a potato from the previous decade. 
 

IMO, the P4 machine is worthless for anything you would do today. Cool to have for a Windows 98 or XP setup, but nothing current. 
 

The celeron isn’t much better… but at least it’s a dual core.

 

The C2D is not much better then that, but it *should* be enough, just don’t expect to transcode anything, ever. But if all you want to do is run a lightweight linux distro with some media files, and serve them via jellyfin, I think it would work. 

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14 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

Man, those are not new machines… when people say you can run a NAS on a potato, they usually at least mean a potato from the previous decade. 
 

IMO, the P4 machine is worthless for anything you would do today. Cool to have for a Windows 98 or XP setup, but nothing current. 
 

The celeron isn’t much better… but at least it’s a dual core.

 

The C2D is not much better then that, but it *should* be enough, just don’t expect to transcode anything, ever. But if all you want to do is run a lightweight linux distro with some media files, and serve them via jellyfin, I think it would work. 

Yes, that's all I want it for. That and a place to copy backups to around once a month.

Eventually I want to get a Raspberry Pi 4, but I don't want to spend the money at the moment, especially for how much I'll be using it (once a month for backing up files, and whenever I want to watch something)

I could probably just run it on my main PC if I really wanted to, but I think the experience setting it all up will be useful for the future

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