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A media server is a network device which acts as a central location for users to access media files on a network. It is a smart device which ‘serves’ clients with the requested media files. Storage device — This is used to store all the media files such as videos, photos, computer files. Clients — These are devices that the end user can access the media from. Examples: TV, mobile phone, your personal computer. The best Budget NAS is a Synology NAS DS218+ (Budget NAS)