Motherboard MSI H510I PRO WIFI LGA 1200 Intel H510 SATA 6Gb/s Mini ITX Intel Motherboard $129.99 NVMe Drive Team Group MP33 M.2 2280 1TB PCIe 3.0 x4 with NVMe 1.3 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) TM8FP6001T0C101 $52.99 Also the HBA is not required, depending on your MB setup. HDD are left out, as we repurposed drives for it:ĮTA: You could certainly go for a 12th gen CPU and MB, although with your use case, I doubt you need to. Build your own, save a few and get a better server.

This is way overpriced for underperformance. *5 As I now the GPU from MAC is far better then the UDH 770 if we compare the GFLOPS

*4 I think 8 GB RAM is enough at the MAC side, but I dont know at the Windows side *³ Quick Sync should help with Transcoding Does it mean it can only Transcode 1 video per time from 2160p to 1080p?

I tried to google it, but didnt understand what the difference betweend Hardware encoding / decoding is. Has a UHD Graphics 770 weaker then the M2 GPU *5ģ.550 GFLOPS similiar to AMD's Ryzen 7 6800U with RDNA 2 graphics Most of the time I will direct Stream, but my friend does not have fast Internet so he has so Transcode the 2160p to 1080p.In general there are 4 People which will Transcode maybe. Right now im using my home Computer, but I want something that is 24/7 online.I would choose between the Mac mini M2 or something like that HP - Elite Mini 600 G9 i5-12500T mini PC Intel® Core™ i5 16 GB DDR5-SDRAM 512.But the HP - Elite Mini costs 250€ more. Hello Together,I googled a lot and search also a lot of Subreddits, but what would be better for a Plex / Sonarr / Radarr Server.

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