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

Les meilleurs plan que j'ai trouvé c'était soit les NUC-like (dont le Beelink oui), soit les mini-PC d'entreprise reconditionnés (Lenovo Thinkcentre, HP ProDesk/Elitedesk, Dell Optiplex Mini...). Ces derniers sont théoriquement plus durables mais ont des composants moins modernes à prix égal. J'ai f

i've been down this road with the whole n100 vs used tiny pc thing. what helped me was grabbing an Intel NUC 11 with Core i5 when prices dropped. the quick sync on 11th gen handles 4k hdr transcoding without breaking a sweat and you get dual channel ram. for under 300 eur look for used Lenovo ThinkC

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