ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny Desktop

Definitely do not go for Aoostar or lesser quality brands. If your main worry is 24/7 reliability, I’d stop thinking in terms of “which one box is perfect?” and start thinking in terms of nodes in a cluster. The Beelink SER5 Max gives you a stronger iGPU and more RAM out of the box (6800H + 32 GB DD

Im a big fan of mini-PCs. Things like HP Elitedesk G4 and Lenovo M70q are cheap, take no room, almost silent (that's a big one if you don't have a basement to hide them in) and surprisingly powerful. I run a full Proxmox cluster on a set of mini-PCs.

Your bottleneck isn't network or storage — it's transcoding. The Pi 4 doesn't have hardware video acceleration that Plex can use, so when a mobile client can't direct-play (mismatched codec, screen size, bandwidth limit), the Pi software-transcodes and 4 cores aren't enough. That's why "optimize for

For this size of storage I would not think more than a few seconds and buy a young used Lenovo m70q tiny with intel cpu and add a bigger ssd for storage. With your arr setup no need to fill dozens of spinning rust harddrives. Just have the media in place you will watch on next time, clean up old stu

Lenovo Tiny PCs. ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 We sell a lot of these to our clients, along with a matching 24 or 27 inch monitor that the PC plugs into the back of. These will keep you going for the next 5+ years. They also have a ThinKiosk mode if your on a Citrix environment.

I’d go with an Intel NUC (if budget is an issue) or Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny, maybe a Lenovo Pseries workstation, if I had a choice. P series can have a dedicated graphics card. Not sure how much you’re looking to spend, but I had Lenovo spin up a custom variant of the ThinkCentre Tiny M70q with dual