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Pyros said:

While I'm sure there's some point if you have multiple TVs and want to watch a bunch of different stuff at the same time and all, personally I've sticked to my old ass method of having a PC connected to a TV directly and just playing videos off that. I did switch like 10years ago to a NUC from Intel which is like a super small and cheap PC, with an external hard drive on USB. I like that it's literally a PC so I can run Firefox and download torrents with it directly like I used to when I just used my real PC, and also got a fairly small Microsoft wireless keyboard with a touchpad integrated so can just do whatever from my couch.

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I have a Nvidia Shield Pro in the living room hooked up to the TV. The Shield has KODI on it for interacting with the NAS. The NAS is (5) 8tb HDD's in RAID5 with (4) 2TB SSD's in RAID10 for buffering. We CAN watch a bunch of different stuff at the same time. I've watched one 4K video here in my game room while my wife watched another different 4K video AND I've done read/writes to this thing without any stuttering. This is the 1st time I didn't try to 'cheap out' on anything storage related. I also removed the shit 4gb of RAM it came with and replaced it with 16GB, which is the max amount the NAS can use. Only way to make things faster is to run fiber all over the house.