DIY Home Theater NAS | Plex Media Server Build! | 21TB of STORAGE!

Today on TwoGuyzTech, Rob and Logan are going to be putting together their own 8-bay NAS for keeping all of their movies and files in one central location.

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DIY Home Theater NAS | Plex Media Server Build! | 21TB of STORAGE!

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[etv]

Why destroying the environment with this power hungry machine? Do you feel comfortable watching a movie when you know the beast is killing a lot of electricity wattage? Personally my thoughts will be in this machine during the whole movie.

[abowers]

I've got a Supermicro CSE-847 with 48TB of storage. Been running for awhile with unRaid and loving collecting and making my own collection

[LxPrne]

Amazing walkthrough. Thanks for putting this together.

[onthecasejase]

Great work seeing you guys put that together. I haven’t seen that done before. Well done!

[BuildMontage]

Nice work guys. Love these kinds of vids.. close to my heart :D

[sethbessinger]

Nice! So do all the drives in the bay work concurrently? So would they all show up as storage to use in Jellyfin or something?

[axnyslie]

Nice video. I went the same route and used my own desktop workstation PC instead of a NAS and built a RAID inside it. This was a better option as I only use direct play for myself and it's much faster and more efficient to add videos to a library on the same authoring machine rather that upload to a network.

[myhometheater]

That’s awesome right there. I’m wanting to set up plex in my room.

[JohnlnnincOrtiz]

what case is this i got my own plex server but always looking for improvement i run 3 hdd of 10tb each but want more space and this case caught my eye

[LifeofBliss]

Nice! I really need to do something like that this next year once we move. Great video guys

[TorinTPG]

Looks great! I bet this will perform a lot better than your previous server

[RobertWilke]

I have that exact case here next to me currently gutted. About 2 years ago I upgraded to a new system I built. For what it is it's fine. I was about to throw out the old case when I saw this video. I'd get cracking on it right now but i'm about to move. After i'm settled though. I'll be building a system similar to this. I do like the swappable bays. One PITA was the fans and those drive bays. I'll gladly swap those out for the ones you had there. I still have the MB and CPU (AMD A64) I have to look if I still have the underpowered GPU. In any case this will be a fun project to do thanks.

[SpecOfTech]

Another great informative video guys. I know who I am coming to talk to if I ever work up the courage to build something like this. Keep up the awesome

[R_]

if one, or two hdd's fail; can you swap with new hdd's without losing data?

[Kara_Kay_Eschel]

I would ask what case you use, but I have the same one. Plus you mention it in the video.

[nebulousJames]

If I already have a nas, I could use the nvidia shield plex app to stream to my projector? If so, will the shield be able to handle 4k hdr highest quality imaginable?

[Kara_Kay_Eschel]

I have the same case and I am using it as the case for my freenas server.

[KlaxontheImpailr]

Why did you install the BD drive at the bottom?

[agent]

drive-bays are becoming a rarity. nice to see them put to a good use

[JohnDoe-bzyl]

I upgraded my HTPC case to a bigger one that can hold 6 3.5 HDD's and I also had to purchase a PCI sata expansion card as my motherboard only had 6 Sata ports (I currently had 1 2.5 SSD as the boot drive 2 4TB 3.5 drives and 2 8TB drives (ordered another one last week) and my Blu Ray burner (for ripping DVD's and Blu Rays)
And I use Plex as a front end