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I'm ripping blu-rays while I'm at my desk (which is a lot) It typically takes 15-20 minutes per blu-ray to finish. It's been an adventure, but I'm loving it!

I have a large blu-ray collection and for years I fell for the convenience of streaming movies off of various platforms. To dip my toes into the hobby, I ripped some of my blu-rays to my current computer and watched them via Plex and I was BLOWN AWAY. Physical media is King and I lost sight of that! I'll still use Netflix and Disney for example, no other way to watch Skeleton Crew for example. Fast forward a few weeks and I built my very first home server. Equipped with (4) 4TB NAS drives I have just under 12TB of storage to work iwith. While gaming I can comfortably rip my movies so here's a snapshot of my own personal streaming platform at home. I have shared my library with my brother, and a few close friends. I absolutely love sharing movies with loved ones. A proud moment as my buddy told me his daughters watched Frosty the Snowman (animated) off my Plex server and they loved it so much they watched a few times in the span of a couple of days. That makes me so happy! Here's a snapshot or two of my library thus far. Still so many to rip! Love the ability of changing movie poster artwork!

Your post saved me a lot of heartache! i couldn't figure out why I couldn't play my movies in original quality when watching on my TV (living room or bedroom). I checked playback settings and saw it was capped at 2mbps for some reason. I checked the "use host network" thing in TrueNas (wheni it says recommended to leave that OFF) and voila, now I can watch my movies in original quality. it's much snappier, too!

I have an NVidia GPU (RTX 2070) I'm stuck on this spot here, how do I complete this step? For Nvidia, you will have to install the runtime and then add environment variable NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all When I followed the instructions I scrolled to the bottom and clicked "Use this GPU" but got a lengthy error message. Guessing because I didn't follow the instruction above. Thank you.

I showed a friend my situation and they're getting a 3D printer later this month, said I should setup my server with 3 HDDS (double sided tape/command strip for my 3rd HDD) then they'll print some brackets for my case so I can secure my other 2 HDDs. Hopefully setting up today! yay!

I snapped a few photos of what I’m working with

This is my mobo, think I saw like 6-8 slots in there?

Hello, I picked up 4 Western Digital Red (4TB) SATA Hard Drives for my server, but my computer case only has 2 3.5" bays! Very frustrating! This is the case I''m using Corsair Carbide 275R I want to build my server as safe and sturdy as possible. I looked into external enclosures but it sounds like that adds a potential failure point so I'd prefer to avoid that. This article also has some better pictures inside the case. I'm not much of a hardware guy. Would love any advice short of buying a new case ='(

I picked up 4 Western Digital Red Plus 4TB drives for my server. Eager to get my invite so I can install! ❤️