What can I replace my K-scape (Gen One) With?

[FutureAudiophile.com]

Hi,

I have a 56 tb MONSTER K-scape. Gen One. OG movie server.

It can rip a DVD which is cool.

It costs a FORTUNE to replace the hard drives (like $750 each and there are more than a dozen) and they go bad.

but that's not the issue.

It is FAN NOISE. This thing is SO F-ing loud in my rack.

Post Palisades fire, I am not sure if it even works. Perhaps.

K-scape won't let you transfer the 3000 movies that I have to the new, smaller, more quiet unit.

Is there anything else out there that is more modern, might rip a DVD(that might not be possible) and is smaller and more quiet?

Thank you in advance for your advice!!!

Jerry

 

[jinjuku]

Plenty of people running FreeNAS and using MakeMKV + either Plex or Jellyfin.

I picked up a Dual CPU X99 motherboard from Amazon (it's a no name) that has 10 SATA and 5 NVME/M.SATA slots on it plus PCIe expansion. $139.

Put a some $12 Xeon 2630's in and $20 (x2) upHere P4K CPU Air Cooler. Also TrueNAS support GPU passthrough so PLEX container can access it direct for on the fly transcoding. I use a $40 Nvidia P600. $70 power supply that's quiet.

I'm running a 4 drive array with 21TB total.

It's never going to be small because the need for storage is going to drive the footprint.