My media server is currently a FreeNAS system from iXSystems. It provides about 26TB of RAID-6 protected storage and relies on open source products so if iXSyst

My media server is currently a FreeNAS system from iXSystems. It provides about 26TB of RAID-6 protected storage and relies on open source products so if iXSystems goes away I can still maintain/upgrade it. My "management" consists of some Nagios scripts that tell me if it is complaining about anything (disk goes bad, scrubs haven't completed, ECC errors have spiked, etc). In its "media" volume it holds my movies, books & papers, and music that have been de-DRMed (if necessary, I always prefer buying non-DRM products). Each medium has a slightly different method of de-DRMing. My toy search engine only indexes the books/papers though.