Hum, I don’t have a stand alone monitor. Mine is attached to my laptop.
I was looking at this QNAP. It looks very powerful. But it get expensive adding the disks.
I thought we were talking about a DIY NAS.
We were, that was what I was talking about as an example of a NAS that people normally run. But it’s not strong enough to transcode much.
Oh, that is good to know. The one link you just send is pretty cool. And it is a parts list. Awsome. I don’t think I need a NAS that big. I read somewhere that Plex works best with a NAS that is about 8TB. What is your opinion about this?
A question, will the NAS you put together able to run raid.
I got a lot of studying to do. Thank you so much for your advice.
well, a typical uncompressed BluRay is about 20GB, if you compress it, you can get it down to 9-16GB without much image quality being compromised (this will vary widely depending on content, ie Action movies are bigger, comedy’s will generally be smaller).
Personally, my computer has 40TB and I have another 40TB on the way…
Yes, that motherboard supports RAID
Wow, that seems like a lot of storage. But maybe it is not to much. And Plex runs good with this size NAS?
Did you order the exact same thing? Or did you make some revisions?
It is so great to have someone that has your experience to advise me. Thank you so much.
Seems that I have some studying to do, but now I will sleep.
I made some revisions obviously 
I need a case big enough to hold that many hard drives for one, hehe. But, what I’ve given you is a good starting point
May I ask why you did not use 2.5 HDD?
Now I need to study and try to understand what you have done. Hehe.
Cost per Gigabyte, and SSD’s don’t like being constantly written to… You can burn out an SSD fast writing and deleting from it constantly
Nice to know. Did you mean SSD’s or HDD’s, I have been wondering why I see no NAS units that have Solid State D
rives. My laptop has the OS on SSD’s and it is lightning fast booting up. Is it a cost thing. What would be the pros and cons?
I meant SSD’s, they burn out quickly when they’re constantly written to and deleted from… Solid State is just fickle like that… Not to mention it’s super expensive when compared to HDD…
There is a company that makes a NAS Solution w/ SSD’s… But you would usually only use something like this for 8K video storage and editing… See this: https://www.45drives.com/products/stornado/
Otherwise it’s way too costly
Yes, your OS is relatively stable and doesn’t change much… your computer is only ever reading from it… Not really writing to it and deleting constantly unless you have a large page file on it or are constantly downloading and deleting what you’ve downloaded… In a NAS that would be transcoding, there’s going to be portions of your drive used for temp storage, frequently, and it will cause the drive to degrade and eventually fail over time
Hum, I will have to take you word for it. I found this one and it is one of the best SSD.
It is $140 for a 1TB drive. But there are some that are closer to $100.
I thought that SSD’s were getting better and maybe it was a good option.
I need to sleep now. Tomorrow I will study the setup you spec’d out. I hope we can talk more tomorrow.
I really appreciate your help with this.
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Hey Jason, Have you seen this chassis? It may be what you are looking for.
Up to 10 3.5 HDD and 2 SDD, or 8 HDD and 4 SDD
15.3L x 13.5W x 12H
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