Hardware Fork in the Road

[BitGhost]

I have a NAS in the jonsbo N1 case. So 5 HDD slots, which was fine because I had a pci card with 2 more sata ports (moba only has 4). But now I'm running jellyfin server too and want to do transcoding, and want to make it hardware accelerated if I can. I tried sata expansion cards in the m.2 and wifi chip slots but they don't recognize/allow it for whatever reason. So now I'm at a choice, I can loose 1 4T HDD but get a slim GPU. Or I can keep the future storage and try the iGPU. I'm not currently using all that much storage space but I do expect it to fill up eventually.
So the question is will the iGPU be sufficient? 


MOBA - A520I AC
CPU - AMD Athlon 200GE 3.2 GHz
GPU - YESTON GeForce GTX 1650 (prospective)

[Electronics Wizardy]

Your CPU should have a iGPU that can do hardware transcoding. I'd try using that here first.

[m9x3mos]

10 hours ago, BitGhost said:

I have a NAS in the jonsbo N1 case. So 5 HDD slots, which was fine because I had a pci card with 2 more sata ports (moba only has 4). But now I'm running jellyfin server too and want to do transcoding, and want to make it hardware accelerated if I can. I tried sata expansion cards in the m.2 and wifi chip slots but they don't recognize/allow it for whatever reason. So now I'm at a choice, I can loose 1 4T HDD but get a slim GPU. Or I can keep the future storage and try the iGPU. I'm not currently using all that much storage space but I do expect it to fill up eventually.
So the question is will the iGPU be sufficient? 


MOBA - A520I AC
CPU - AMD Athlon 200GE 3.2 GHz
GPU - YESTON GeForce GTX 1650 (prospective)

If Jellyfin can use the igpu, and you are only doing one or two steams at a time, that should be fine.