Ask HN: where do you store your movies?

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by adityar • 13 years ago

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I'm getting close to terabytes of movies and music. I'd like to know a good way to store them for easy access.

benologist• 13 years ago

I don't have enough space on my laptop anymore so I have an external hard drive but what I really do is just stream most of the time.

There are great legal and illegal options, the downside is of course if you have no or bad internet then it's all inaccessible but my external hard drive is inaccessible a lot of the time too anyway.

Between retina and HD I don't think it's sustainable to store stuff locally anymore unless you give up SSDs and ultraportables.

t0• 13 years ago

I'll usually just delete them. When you can download any movie in 5-10 minutes, there's really no need to store.

TobbenTM• 13 years ago

Running a Drobo NAS box with 10TB storage.

Not cheap, but extremely convenient. Chose the Drobo so I don't have to configure RAID stuff myself when messing around with the disks. A bit slow though (usually get around 60MB/s).

Previously I had all the disks in my desktop computer, which made it really heavy and inaccessible.

jaybong• 13 years ago

I use a 5 bay Synology Nas with three 3TB drives in it atm in what Synology call Synology Hybrid Raid (easy auto set up/1 disk fault tolerance).

The software on it is highly configurable and you can install third party addon's, plus I use the web station as a local web server which makes it easy to test mobile dev.

It's a little expensive but generally considered to be the best in that range (in terms of hardware/software/storage). The 1GB Ram is enough to stream to multiple devices, even if the server's doing some other stuff on it's own (downloading content or whatever).

If that's overkill in terms of space or price Synology make smaller ones with the same software.

Review on Small Net Builder: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31774-synolog...

DSM Info: http://www.synology.com/dsm/dsm_for_home.php?lang=us

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