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by lostlogin 1519 days ago
> Running a large media server can actually be pretty costly on power bills these days.

Only if using server hardware, and that isn’t a good way to do it. A recent generation igpu and a low power computer is the way to go. You’ll get 10+ streams out an Intel Nuc, or similar sff pc. The expensive bit is the storage array.