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Do You Need More Space for Your Media Needs?

Posted by Cliff on from the fulfilling-the-endless-need-for-more-free-bytes dept.

ewanrg asks: "I have about 1/2 Terabyte of storage on my couple of home systems, and it's filling up rapidly with captured Home Videos and shows recorded off my TiVO. I'm thinking that if I want to get through the next season of TV and the Holiday season at home I need to add at least a Terabyte of storage. My first thought was to use DVD-R (since I have a burner). However, if you assume that you use about 4.4 Gigs (in real terms) per DVD-R, then you'd need 230 DV-Rs to hold about a terabyte of data. Inconvenient if you're trying to find which of 10 DVDs you put that episode of Futurama on - particularly if you recorded them as they came (over a few years) rather than wait until you could get them every night on Cartoon Network. I've also looked at the various NAS devices out there, but $8-$20K seems a bit much. What I'd really like would be an inexpensive drive or array I could hook up to my PC which has a S-Video out port. I could then use all sorts of Media Library programs to find a file and play it. Can folks suggest something big and reasonably fast with an affordable prosumer price tag?"

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  1. hehe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quit pretending. Just admit that it's PORN you need all that space for.

  2. Re:Donate it to charity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If a child is starving it doesn't need immunizations

    Yes, but these are immunizations against food.

  3. Say whut!? by joshsnow · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm thinking that if I want to get through the next season of TV and the Holiday season at home I need to add at least a Terabyte of storage.

    I'm thinking that you've got a serious problem to deal with...

  4. Re:When it comes out on DVD... by nicky_d · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's taken a rather long time for Married With Children to come out on DVD, and who knows when it'll all be available?

    October 28th for the first season in the US. Go check Amazon... hope that puts a smile on your face ;)