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Would you recommend to use a RPi 5 or a second hand Lenovo mini pc (i3 6100t, 8gb ram) or something else?

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[โ€“] oneser@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm running a home space with jellyfin and navidrome on a Pi5. Until now it's been perfectly fine playing local and normally streaming to a single device at a time. The online support and off the shelf peripheries for troubleshooting the pi is also great!

I went to plug a 5TB drive into the pi the other day and it unmounted the SSD that was already plugged in. To me this is a sign that it is not build to handle more rigorous tasks (e.g. streaming to multiple devices, whilat performing a back up).

I probably won't be swapping the system anytime soon, but I would go for a refurbed mini PC if I could go back in time.

[โ€“] Jokulhlaups@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the feedback! Had similar problems with a raspberry pi. It cannot deliver enough power to the hdd, so it kept rebooting the drive.