A bit of insight would be highly appreciated...

[s00confused]

I am so confused as to what I should chose for a quality media server (HARDWARE) that is capable of transcoding HVEC & 4K videos and movies which would be eventually viewed on my Roku.

This is my current Media Server: (running either Plex or Emby at one time)
Model Name: Mac mini (2018)
Model Identifier: Macmini8,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 6
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 9 MB
Memory: 32 GB

The frustration from the buffering I encounter during certain movies has me considering 2 machines:

(XEON)
Dell Power Edge T30 Server
INTEL XEON E3-1225 V5 3.3GHZ
1TB SATA HDD 7.2 RPM
8GB RAM UDIMM 2400

or,

(i7)
INTEL CORE I7-9700 3.0Ghz 9TH GEN
8GB DDR4 RAM
240GB SSD + 1TB HDD

Would either of these machine's processors cure all my transcoding / buffering issues? Are there other things i need to consider?

 

[Deleted member 185158]

Well more threads and cores would be more ideal for transcoding.

So a 2700X / 3700X + B450 + DDR4 would be a better choice over the 2 above you've chosen.

 

[sneekypeet]

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