I saw some of the HP and Lenovo mini PC’s on ebay, etc for a decent price. I went with the BeeLink because of the deal I got on it. $250 USD for a 10th gen i5, 16GB RAM, and a 500GB M2. Figure I would spend the bit of extra money for an more up to date proc and extra RAM. I tend to keep machines for a VERY long time so I wanted to start at a good spot.

Sounds like esxi storage provisioning. You can grow, but shrinking is a whole different story

I have in on backorder to use as my plex server

I like the beelink and minisforum nucs more than Intel branded.

I don’t do it at work, but I’ll talk on the phone while growing tail at home.

If Jellyfin had a good Xbox app I would switch immediately.

Plex has better client support though. Have you seen the Xbox app?

Note that in order to use hardware transcoding you have to have plex pass.

Why Jellyfin over plex? I looked at JF but the lack of a good Xbox app made me stick with Plex.