Hi everyone
I need help on deciding on a SFF. I mainly will be using it for Plex but also for other purposes like home automation etc.
Currently I’m thinking about a M.2 SSD or PCIe SSD with 2 HDD’s. I also saw that those SFF have often an optical drive, maybe I could replace this with an SSD? Or is that to difficult?
Following are available for me:
- HP 600 G3 SFF
- HP Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF
- HP 280 G2 SFF
- HP 400 G3 SFF
- HP 600 G3 SFF
- HP 600 G2 SFF
- DELL OptiFlex 3040 SFF
Ofc i googled for the specs but sometimes there are contradictory information about a product. So i hope i can consult someone who has more technical expertise :)
Honestly, you may be overthinking this. For a media server you want something with a fairly recent Intel processor, say a 6th gen or newer i5, i7 or i9, with at least 8 GB of RAM (More is better), and as much storage as you can reasonably afford. The only reason I say go with an Intel CPU is because QuickSync can make transcoding go quicker. The particular model of the PC doesn’t really matter. Anything with these specs will run Home Assistant quite easily as well as most other things you might want.
If you haven’t run across https://perfectmediaserver.com/ you may wish to check it out.