While I do have a Chromecast and we enjoy it, the Xbox One is our set-top box.
The one missing part has always been watching Plex on my big screen. One of the best features (there's a million) is being able to seamlessly mark a file as "offline" and sync it to a portable device. I use Plex extensively on my iPad and Surface Pro 3. I've even added a Git Server, iTunes Server, and a "Cloud Station" which is basically "Personal DropBox." Glorious. I used to run most of this stuff on my desktop, but I'm convinced more and more that every connected home needs a Home Server. The Synology (since I upgraded the RAM cheaply) also runs Surveillance Station monitoring 4 IP cameras posted around my house, as well as VPN Server, *and* CrashPlan cloud backup. I run Plex on this Synology as it also hosts all my family photos, family videos, and DVD backups. In the few years since I've had the Synology I've had 2 drives fail and in each case the Synology emailed me, I pulled the drive and replaced them (I now keep two spares around) and rebuilt without incident.
I put four 2TB 7200 Seagate drives in it. I have a Synology 1511 (the Synology 1513 is today's model). Finally, today these three things are working together to give me a lovely unified view of my media library.
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