It’s not really a convenience if you’ve never set one up, not technically minded, and are just after some media storage.

You’ll be telling him to install some Linux distro next.

Yes, you’re right, pedantic, but right. Thing is, we’ve been talking about having an “on-prem” NAS.

There’s really not any need to have a go at me, I’m just trying to help some dude who doesn’t want to spend an extra 300 quid on a NAS box, setup the software and have to play with raid.

I know what I’m doing, and I don’t want a NAS. I have a 4Tb M.2 as my boot & games drive, and 2x 14TB HDD for Media. I have Plex installed and it’s great.

Most people don’t need a NAS. Unless you’re running a full network setup like Linus, a NAS isn’t needed.

I can watch stuff on my PC, or I can cast to the living room TV, while the missus casts to the bedroom PC.

Download Plex. It’s as simple as it gets.