No reason to transcode if you have the bandwidth I’ve found, just allow / force direct play / direct stream on all clients

Also I run RAID 1 USB HDDs and honestly they do fine with up to a few people at a time streaming

On my most active Pi 4B I run docker with: Bazarr Doplarr Foundry VTT Jacket Overseer Plex Portainer Radarr Sonarr Syncthing Transmission through VPN

You can do a lot with these little things

Edit: missed an r

This is the way, grab the freeleeches and seed. Back when I was building ratio I would do this on a Seedbox, now a days I do it myself as my bandwidth has greatly improved

For a unique take… The music and background sounds in Kenshi. Music is so sparse that when it does kick in, and how it kicks in, is just really unlike any other game.