Data h***ders, especially media h***ders, have a common problem. Storage space, no matter how many terabytes you have, starts running short way too quickly. Maybe it’s all the 4K Blu-ray disks that you ripped in lossless quality, or even high-bitrate files for a multi-season TV show. The fact of the matter is, space is never enough. And on a NAS, where space is precious, sooner or later you realize that your video library could do with some optimization. It’s a roadblock I’ve stumbled into several times as someone who hosts a media library spanning tens of terabytes for my family members. Sorting through thousands of files and optimizing manually is out of the question due to the sheer commitment it requires. That’s where Tdarr steps in. This self-hosted tool can scan your entire video collection, make intelligent decisions on your behalf about what needs to be transcoded and what needs to be remixed, and then automate it. Once configured, Tdarr essentially turns into a background task that keeps your media server NAS lean and future-proof.