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So as many of you know, I have been planning to buy a family pc that will do network based storage and stream videos along with general stuff and light gaming. But the other day, we had some people over with kids and I realized that as this will be an exposed PC, the external hard drives and such could get unplugged or pushed over and etc.

So I think I'll be buying a very cheap secondary PC who's purpose is only to be a network based storage and allow me to stream videos from it over wifi and such over the network. Now there's two sets of software that can do it that is fairly widely known. One is called Plex and the other is called Jellyfin. Now I was planning to buy and AMD based PC as their iGPUs are great but sadly, neither of those software support hardware accelerated trans-coding on Radeon hardware. Well Jellyfin technically does but according to their website, it doesn't look very good compared to QuickSync from Intel on their iGPUs or Nvidia but that would be too expensive in this case.

So I am thinking to get either

$440 CAD MINISFORUM Mini PC NAB5 Windows 11 Pro Intel Core i5-12450H Processor up to 4.4GHz 16GB RAM DDR4 512GB PCIe4.0 SSD Dual LAN Mini Desktop Computer,2 x HDMI,3 x USB Type-C,4 x USB Type A,WiFi 6,BT5.2

$610 CAD MINISFORUM Venus Series NAB6 Mini PC, 12th Gen Core i7-12650H Small Compter, 32G DDR4+512G PCIe4.0 SSD, 2X HDMI+2X USB-C 4K

Output, 2X 2.5G RJ45 Port, 4X USB3.2 Windows 11 Pro Small Form Factor

So which one should I get or if anyone else has any suggests?