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NAS vs. refurbished server
(alien.top)
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
I use Kodi on an Nvidia Shield TV Pro instead of Plex so I don't have to transcode. My NAS is an 8-bay Synology DS unit on a rack shelf, it has bigger fans than an RS unit so it's quieter.