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From: Don Green

7/4/2019 7:59:40 PM

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (103520)	7/3/2019 8:28:25 PM
From: Don Green	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 103529

I have an 8tb NAS with movies, tv, sports and ebooks on it , my personal cloud, I have been able to access it from hotels in Rome and Montreal, Tokyo and I am able to provide access to my son from multiple location around the world when he travels. It is amazing software. It is almost like sling box. It does a great job with music files cataloging them. I honestly can’t imagine how anyone could hate it.


To: Don Green who wrote (103522)	7/3/2019 9:04:20 PM
From: J.F. Sebastian	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 103529

Which brand of NAS do you use? Whatever I buy needs to have good management software and work well with Macs. I've read good things about Synology, save for that unfortunate cryptolocking virus awhile ago that targeted and infiltrated their software. I plan to have a 5-bay NAS or better, with storage of at least 20-30TB. I have many Blu-ray movies I'd like to convert to MKV format, and they can be pretty large. I want to have it configured as RAID 5 or RAID 6 for both striping and redundancy. I'm always leery about allowing external access to anything on my LAN. Not worth the risk to me, and I really don't have a need in that way regarding my media. Plenty to see via traditional streaming services like Netflix if I'm ever away and need it. As for Plex, years ago I was at a friend's how and we watched something he had ripped straight from DVD as an ISO image. While the audio was fine, the video had a slight jutter to it. Made it annoying to watch. All other ISOs he had did the same thing. We played with all of the settings we could think of, but nothing worked. Had he converted it to an MP4 file instead, it likely would've been fine. It's just little things like that I've read over the years that made people unhappy with Plex.

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (103524)	7/3/2019 9:22:57 PM
From: Don Green	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 103529

J.F. I have a Qnap 2 bay unit. I bought from B&H photo. The software and more importantly technical support are great. There is a learning curve in properly formatting and backing up the drives. But after a few mistakes early on it works like a charm. I honestly think you are over estimating your storage needs. The largest file on the drive is a 50gig 4k version of the 2018 movie Phantom Thread. To be honest 4k on a 65 in 4k tv doesn’t look any better than a 1080K version and the space difference for storage is maybe 10 times. All of my videos are mp4 or mkv. If you are really interested we can take this conversation via PM. I don’t leave my NAS on all of the time it has a clock system to turn it on and off when I know I might want to use when out of the area or county. Backing up is more complicated than I expected. So I have a separate 8tb usb external drive to store the raw data. Don

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