Deefur

man thank you so much for this, gave me alot to think about. For some reason i forgot cpu's come with heat sinks i never ever use them so i completely forgot. I have an old build laying around, the case is huge but im sure i can pull some parts outta there. Its an i7-5820k, gtx970, 4x16gb ddr4 3000 ram sticks, and an cosair h100i cooler. the ram sticks ill reuse for sure but the rest. For the nvme slots, i have a 128 m.2 drive laying around i was going to repurpose for caching and docker and other slot was going to be one of those expansion slots, just didnt plan going over 4 drives to start off. Initially i went with the 12600k specifically for the igpu processing but not really sure i need that. My set up is going to be switch>NAS>Nvidia Shield>AVR>Projector but than again i will also have my main pc on the same lan switch so could my main pc be utilized to transcode if needed, that bit is confusing to me. I understand transcoding but what i dont understand is where that needs to be handled, does it need to be handled on the NAS itself, or can the NAS offload that part to something else?

Yup so to answer your question about remote use, not really only me when i travel witch is maybe once a month. As far as paying for emby goes, I plan to grab the lifetime license, ive heard good things about Jellyfin but those who used it mostly switched to paid emby when they had the money. Plex doesnt really float my boat, the disallowing of 3rd party apps/tools bugs me.

So I am in the works of building out a home theater, the final piece to that puzzle is a nice little NAS. Here is my build idea https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9ZGzh3 please could you take a look and make any recommendations or if you see any issues with this build. The RAM i have some 16gb ddr4-3000 sticks laying around from previous pc builds. So my idea is to run Emby along with a few auto discover apps like Sonarr, radarr and observerr. Was also considering throwing an nvidia shield between the projector and the nas to handle the transcoding specifically for dolby. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks in advance.