My GTX1050 card (similar to what linked) made a large difference in lessening the CPU load. My system is running on a dual Xeon board so I've got 16 physical cores and they get taxed when I have 4 or so remote users trying to watch something at the same time. You could also mix and match OS and Media server (Ubuntu with Plex and Unraid with Jellyfin It all depends on your tech skills comfort and available time. So you have several options: Go all free - Ubuntu and Jellyfin or Unraid with Plex - all decent options, later would much easier to set up and use, but more expensive. In your case this hardware you would probably be ok running FreeNAS (aka Truenas Core) on it and plex on another box. If you noticed I said my plex is NUC, which clearly doesn't support the space needed, not an issue for me since I use Freenas as storage only and plex server on a separate platform. Consider that a TV episode is at least 1gig in somewhat decent quality and movie is 4-5gb for a regular 1.5h flick. The fine print here is while Plex Pass provides free clients, with Plex Free each client is extra ($5 approx)īut hey, I like free and you have time maybe you could figure out how to effectively used Jellyfin without spending money on supported clients.Īnother subject is storage - 2.5TB is very, very little space for video library.

On the other hand, Plex natively supports software for both.

Jellyfin doesn't have Vizio TV integration and Apple TV only using 3rd party Infuse player.

So Probably cheap GTX1050 like this one: Īs I mentioned, a media server client(s) is something you should consider.

Universal media server vizio