It also then allows me to share this media outside of my media server.
So this allowed me to setup a Samba share which makes it much easier for me to add content to my media collection. I highly recommend you have a look at it if you haven't already. I absolutely love TrueNAS, it's a very powerful piece of software which allows you to be able to do many things with it (from running a NAS instance to even running LDAP). I used to have it all on a single hard drive, but I instead come up with a better solution using FreeNAS (now TrueNAS). I absolutely love it! Now all this media takes up significant storage. I run a home media server which I have different media from movies, to tv series to photos which I have taken.