The FlexGet BoxThis could be on the Media Server, but in our case it’s not.The whole thing was about $100 the most expensive / difficult part to source was the Blu-Ray disc reader, that ended up increasing the price significantly. The Media ServerI bought an older Dell desktop off eBay it’s got a reasonably fast processor, a Blu-Ray Disc reader, 4 GB of memory, gigabit ethernet, and a fast 200+ GB hard drive.Ours is an older Netgear ReadyNAS NV+, and should be replaced sometime in the next year – it’s beginning to show its age rather badly.All content is stored on the NAS in the /media folder tree. It gets used for computer backups and so on, but media files make up most of the data on the system. It’s a standalone box of hard drives, with over 8 TB of total storage for all the various things. The NASNAS stands for Network Attached Storage.The home network is pretty complicated, but the important components for this are:
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