u/mattreilly74

i’ve held on to all my physical media (maybe 300 dvd/200 blu-ray) and just closed out my storage container with hopes of bringing them home, ripping them, and making a my own streaming library.

i figured out all the networking glitches between my network, NAS, and macbook.

i bought a cheap external drive, but i've run into a shit ton of glitches with makemkv.

did a little research and it looks like i need a pioneer or lg drive.

plus, i might need to upgrade my NAS‘ storage to 12TB (*2 for redundancy).

conservatively, i’m now looking at $1,000 to $1,500 for a reliable optical drive and two HDDs.

my little hobby got really expensive.

am i missing something: maybe a chance to reduce the hardware cost?