This is the way. It's just me who watches stuff off my nas and I'm fine with vlc so I don't use plex or jellyfin or whatever. I have an old (at this point) qnap nas that I've been doing the same with. Mine is a total of 40tb'ish iirc. I definitely need to get a second nas and some more drives but for now what I have is enough though I am going to run out of space soonish.