I have network storage. That’s it.

I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.

I have 5TiB of media and I’ve never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.

What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?

Thanks all.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Yes. And No.

    I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.

    That was it.

    Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos… so… it’s technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it…

    Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something… my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn’t being used)

    • Wolfizen@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Nice! Thank you for sharing your experience. :)

      How did you get your NAS to know when it was being used?