Luke 42077 Posted August 16, 2025 Posted August 16, 2025 In this installment of our Emby Community Spotlight series, we're highlighting three new users with completely different builds. One leverages serious archival storage and years of media curation; another keeps things lean and affordable; and a third takes a no-nonsense approach with hand-me-down hardware. Each setup proves that no matter your budget or complexity, Emby can be tailored to fit your needs! User 1: 3.3 Million Entries, 400TB of Storage, and a Custom-Tuned Library OS: Windows Server 2025 CPU: Intel i7-7700 RAM: 48GB GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660 (transcoding) Storage: 64GB NVMe (OS) 500GB NVMe (cache & image storage) 50TB local RAID (primary library) Four Synology NAS units (~400TB raw capacity) Transcode Cache: SATA SSDs in RAID 0 Media: Films by decade TV series split into "Running" and "Archived" libraries Separate volumes for music, audiobooks, ebooks, photos, YouTube downloads Comic book library (50TB) stored on a separate Emby instance Clients: Nvidia Shield TV Nokia Box 8000 Apple TV 4 Multiple Smart TVs (LG & Samsung) Android beamers iPhones, iPads, Android phones & tablets across multiple countries “It’s an old daily driver turned into a serious media server. While the hardware isn’t groundbreaking, the organization and volume of media make this setup incredibly rewarding to use.” User 2: A Low-Cost, Low-Fuss Setup That Gets the Job Done Server: OrangePi 5+ 256GB eMMC 8-core CPU 16GB RAM Storage: Synology DS224+ with 2x8TB WD Red Other Infrastructure: System76 Meerkat (handles web/misc services) Ubiquiti UCG Ultra router External backup drive Clients: Android phones (various Pixel models) Android tablet Roku Chromecast Web browsers “It’s small, cheap, and reliable. For a household setup, it works beautifully without drawing much power” User 3: Old PC, New Life OS: (Windows 11 Pro) CPU: Intel i5-9400 (Quick Sync for transcoding) RAM: 32GB DDR4 Storage: 10TB Toshiba N300 4TB WD Red (2019) 3TB WD Red (2016, pending replacement) 1TB WD770 NVMe 1TB Kingston NVMe (used for cache and transcoding) Clients: TCL 4K Android TV LG 4K webOS Android phones and tablets Roku Xbox Series X “It’s a simple build using my old PC, and it runs Emby without issue. I’m toying with the idea of upgrading soon, but for now, it just works.” Want to Share Your Emby Setup? From server racks to single-board computers, the Emby community is full of creative solutions. If you’re running Emby on something interesting, or even something ordinary, and want to be featured in a future spotlight, join the Emby Community Forums and share your setup. You might see your system in Volume 5! View the full article 4
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