I’m sorry to say but it’s Windows. You never really know. Have you considered getting an old optiplex on Amazon Renewed and putting Debian and Jellyfin on that?
Update for the people downvoting:
I am a professional platform engineer. By ‘Windows. You never really know’ I mean that there are always ten thousand things running, you’re never going to have a full grasp of everything that’s happening in the way that you could with a stripped down linux environment. My own Jellyfin instance is running on
- Intel® Core™ i5-4590S CPU @ 3.00GHz
- 8GB RAM
- Integrated Graphics
- Shipped AUG 2014
- Ubuntu 22.04 with deb installation of Jellyfin
All clients connect via Wifi although server is cat5 to switch. Most of my video does not require transcoding. There are plenty of FLAC audio files in my library. I don’t see slowdowns as described here.
You can configure Jellyfin to automatically add new found items to your library but you will need to get on top your logs to make the most of this: