My Simplified Home Network: My NAS, Switches, VMs, and Software

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Here's the gear I use:

First, the VPN I use on my PC and on the VMs (especially when I'm downloading): https://teksyndicate.com/pia

Router running DDWRT: https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-Dual-Band-Wireless-Tri-Stream-WRT3200ACM/dp/B01JOXW3YE?tag=teksynd-20

NAS Units (you really only need one)
NAS 1: Synology 4 bay: https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-DS920-Diskless-4-bay/dp/B087Z34F3R?tag=teksynd-20
2.5 GB Ethernet Adapter for the Synology: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YJ8CLMS?tag=teksynd-20
Drivers for Synology: https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152

NAS 2: Asustor AS6604T: https://www.amazon.com/Asustor-Lockerstor-AS6604T-Attached-Quad-Core/dp/B089WKDKQK?tag=teksynd-20

Switches:
Asustor 2.5 GB Switch (I have a couple of these): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HQFSKWS?tag=teksynd-20

TP-Link 24 port switch: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-24-Port-Gigabit-Rackmount-TL-SG1024S/dp/B0779R9LJ3?tag=teksynd-20
TP-Link 8 port switch: https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Splitter-Optimization-Unmanaged-TL-SG108/dp/B00A121WN6?tag=teksynd-20
TP-Link 5 port switch: https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Splitter-Optimization-Unmanaged-TL-SG105/dp/B00A128S24?tag=teksynd-20

Tiny PC for VMs: https://shop.udoo.org/en/udoo-bolt-gear.html
It's a bit expensive, and it was sent to me for review a long while ago. I would probably just use a small dell with a 4770k for VMs if I didn't have this.

Raspberry Pi works fine, but it's so expensive now. You can run pihole on this instead: https://www.amazon.com/Libre-Computer-AML-S905X-CC-Potato-64-bit/dp/B074P6BNGZ?tag=teksynd-20

As for media software, I use jellyfin and foobar. Let's talk about it.

You can install Jellyfin right on your nas, in whatever package manager you're using. Otherwise, you can get servers and clients here:
https://jellyfin.org/

If you want to use jellyfin for music as well, there's an amazing app for mobile called, finamp.
https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp

You can tell it which libraries are music/audio/audio books, etc. and it will just werk.... with most file types. I use foobar just because I have loads of video game music that uses different file formats (discussed in the video). For that, foobar and some plugins are needed.

Foobar
https://www.foobar2000.org/
https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_upnp
For VGM files: https://vgmstream.org/

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