I have a NAS and it works pretty well since I mostly don't have to worry about it. Backup scripts talk to it automatically. The TV can read stream from it direc

I have a NAS and it works pretty well since I mostly don't have to worry about it. Backup scripts talk to it automatically. The TV can read stream from it directly (I'm a huge fan of borrowing DVDs at the library and making them available for the NAS), I git push stuff to it, etc. I know a NAS is not what you're asking about, but it goes give you a huge % of the features of a home server with only 5% of the effort.