Considering ripping my CD collection to a NAS drive.
Down here in the fourth world choices are limited and i might be able to buy this 4 bay NAS for $450-500 and then the drives at $200 each.

Before deciding i thought better ask my trusty friends.

Pros and cons welcome.

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I've purchased four NAS devices in the last two years. It came down to either QNAP or Synology. I ended up going with the Synology devices, but I feel like QNAP would have served me equally well.

As a media server, I think you'll be happy with that QNAP. My media server is a Synology DS920+ with a Celeron J4125 processor. I've had four simultaneous users transcoding videos and the CPU usage wasn't over 30%. The TS-451D2 has the two core version of that chip, so it should be fine.

Whatever model you buy, just be sure to go for one with the Intel x86 chip, not the ARM ones. The Intel Celeron has the built-in hardware decoder, and is a better setup as a media server. Our server at work is a DS1621+, a model aimed at small business. While the AMD V1500 processor is outstanding in a file server and for virtualization, it would under perform as a media server relative to the cheaper NASs with Celeron processors.

Yep but not that model.
I am a QNAP Partner and always thought they offered much more than Synology but I digress.

I rip all mine to my NAS in FLAC format.
I server them out with a ASSET UPnP DLNA Server App

Then you can use a multitude of client apps to playback.
My preference is J River Media Center but others work well too.

I use dBpoweramp's CD Ripper to rip them but there are others as well.

Tip: Attach an USB drive and backup/sync the data ... just in case.
Nothing worse than ripping a ton of CD's and have to do it again if you have a problem on the server.
It saved me a ton of time.
SO backup ... do it!

I hear you, Steve. Might take months to gather all the parts my supplier tells me.

Government is choking imports to less than the bare minimum in all the international trade.

Been looking for an AV receiver and they vanished end 2019. All brands and models.
Electronics moves a lot of hard currency abroad and the lockdown took care of the stock as the chain stores dissapeared and went broke one after the other.

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In the past I have used both.

The price of large drive has gotten so cheap I am now using a pair of Seagate 8TB drives I bought at Costco.

I just alternate drives to back up to.

$169 each

It's too bad we can't ship stuff to you, but you'd probably never get it.

When my daughter was living in Buenos Aires, we couldn't even ship her a pair of shoes in the same package. Shipped one at a time, and they'd get there, eventually. Both together, stolen every time. Peanut butter always made it through.