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Expanding storage on simple home server
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Yes, the consensus here seems to be that for media it is fine to choose a HDD. Won't it make streaming from Jellyfin slower?
Not unless you choose really slow hard drives, or stream very high bitrate media. Most hard drives can easily do 100MB/s sequentially (i.e. reading a large file, such as long video files). Meanwhile high-bitrate 4K video is only about 50Mbit/s, so about 6MB/s.
No. People here grossly underestimate the performance of hdds. Streaming is an easy task for hdds.
My small low power self built NAS has HDDs for Jellyfin and no problems at all. Just a simple straight forward RAID1 created from countless online tutorials. Feel free to ask or contact me if you wanna know more of the software setup things.
Thanks for sharing that writeup, this is useful info for the building it myself route
No. Keep all the software running on SSDs while using HDDs for storing the video files themselves. You'll never max their transfer speed out especially considering you're not sharing with friends and family.
HDD is cheap and enough, but SSD is silent.