
You will kick yourself later if you only choose a 4-bay NAS to start with! Example. iso files so that I can get any information that was on the original.iso files can contain and be used for Dolby Vision playback. Storage is fairly cheap these days and I prefer to use. I use a computer as my digital media player. iso files, however you may want to double check. iso file to get rid of stuff you don't want. iso container can be an exact copy of the original. There is no way to currently correctly store and play back Dolby Vision in an MKV container. It is a good container format if you want to save some disk space and are not concerned with all of the "extras" that come with video disks these days. They can pack back in all of the stuff that was on the original, but not with all of the navigation cues, etc. MKV containers lose the original integrity of the disk. I only have 227 UHD but over 1,300 Blu-ray and DVD titles DVDFab UHD Copy will also allow you to copy to an MKV container if you wish to only keep the main feature and no DolbyVision. iso container instead (full image copy), using DVDFab UHD Copy. You will be missing parts of the original including the ability to use DolbyVision. If you use MakeMKV to rip, you will no longer have the full disk. If you can't find either of those drives with that firmware, you will need to purchase DVDFab UHD Drive tool, which will downgrade your drives firmware to the necessary version.


If you want to copy UHD disks using your laptop, you will need to get either an Those 3 brands are high quality and well supported. You will pull them out of the external shell and install them into either a 6 or 8 bay Synology, QNAP or NETGEAR NAS. You can occasionally find WD Easystore 14TB and 12TB external drives in this range. The sweet spot for hard drives these days is $15/TB. Will I need a seperate optical drive to do this? I only have an Acer Aspire 5 laptop and don't think its internal drive is capable of ripping such large disc files. I believe I can use MakeMKV to do the ripping. If I've done my research correctly, I don't need a NAS that does transcoding since the Shield Pro will do that for me, right?

According to QNAP's Storage Calculator, I'm looking at 30+ TB of storage needed for up to 1000 two hour-long Bluray discs.

I've got $600 in credit on Rakuten's Storefront to spend if there's an option there I can get (looks like mostly Synology and QNAP models). I have an Nvidia Shield Pro coming today that will handle playback with Plex. I have 500 (and growing) 4K UHD discs that I would like to rip and transfer to a NAS, as well as almost 100 Blurays and 50 DVDs. I consider myself a pretty competent guy and can catch on pretty quickly, I just need a jumping-off point.
