I prefer to use the Rpi due to power consumption but I’m worried about RAM usage; I’m currently already using it for pihole, Nextcloud and a Discord bot, taking about 1GB of RAM most of the time. On hindsight I should’ve bought a 4gb or 8gb model at that time… I plan to use it for maximum 5 people, and probably up to two will be using it at the same time.
- pAULIE42o ( @paulie420@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
So… I’m a total RPi guy, but you’re kinda considering two machines that are completely different. While the i5 is only a 6th gen, I think it would be well more equipped to host services that need to remain up.
If you’re just wanting to play around or build some project where size is crucial, I guess I could see going for the RPi - many applications won’t NEED more than 2GB of RAM, but I think a RPi 4 w/ 8GB RAM would be much more comparable to the core i5 you’re describing.
I’d probably pick the i5…
What are you wanting to build/host/run?
On top of my current setup? A jellyfin server for my family. And yh I think I’m gonna leave the rpi with what it already has and use this pc for that.
- pAULIE42o ( @paulie420@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Well, maybe I can help with a different reply. :P (I didn’t know what service you wanted to run on the hardware…)
I ran a RPi (8GB) running BOTH openmediavault (NAS) and PLEX and it chugged along for years of service. I do think your 2GB model will host jellyfin just fine (with NO transcoding, of course) - but you might be able to run a couple more services on the i5… heck, spin up both and see if you notice any big differences between the two.
Let us know where you land after you choose!
I thought the service was going to be assumed because of the community we are in. But it doesn’t matter now.
You were right, actually Jellyfin itself is very very lightweight…as long as I don’t do any transcoding. If I do then it starts getting sluggish. And I couldn’t get hardware acceleration to work, probably because of what the documentation mentions.
Last night, my movie harddrive appeared to be corrupted so I left it running all night with chkdsk on Windows. If that got fixed, next step would be to check if I don’t need any transcoding in the first place in the devices I use. If I do, then I will use the other PC.