Looking at first NAS

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I am looking at a buget friendly 2 or four bay (unsure how much storage i will need to store about 300 blurays). FOur bay would be nice as i will have the option to expand down the track. But a minimum of 2 is fine. I want a reasonable cpu for streaming 4k blurays but am not sure what fits in my buget.

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Hi there, and thanks for the message. For your use case a four bay NAS makes far more sense. Once you start ripping full size Blu-ray discs, two bays fill up quickly, and a four bay unit will let you grow toward thirty terabytes without replacing drives later. It also gives you the option of RAID for protection.

Within your seven hundred AUD budget including drives, you need a practical system rather than anything overpowered. The good news is that for local 4K playback you do not need a heavy CPU. As long as your TV or playback device can direct play, Jellyfin or Plex will send the movie as is with no transcoding.

The budget friendly models that fit your goal are:

QNAP TS-464
TerraMaster F4-424
UGREEN DXP4800

All three can handle local 4K playback and run Jellyfin or Plex smoothly. If noise matters, you can start with two drives now and expand later, or add SSDs for critical content.