I lived without Plex for a very long time, but could not find a good media player now that the WDTV is no longer in production. Plex is ubiquitous. Smart TVs ha

I lived without Plex for a very long time, but could not find a good media player now that the WDTV is no longer in production. Plex is ubiquitous. Smart TVs have a Plex app, nearly every media player has the ability to load a Plex app. And my five year olds can use it. And I can prevent them from watching anything I haven't allowed them to watch. I kind of wish I hadn't resisted for so long, but now I'm on board. My Plex server runs Ubuntu, which connects via NFS to a Synology that stores the data on a mirrored array. Since it is connected via network files are placed on the server over the network using rsync over ssh or just scp depending on the source.