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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. Q & A by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Q: Do You Need More Space for Your Media Needs?


    A: No.

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    If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
  2. Insensitive Clod by CustomFort · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I graduate from High School in May of 2005 you Insensitive Clod!

  3. Go Outside by ripbruger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Really. It'll do you a world of good. Unless this is for business purposes (which it doesn't sound like it), it's not worth worrying about. Get some exercise.

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    I can't spell ripburger
  4. Mod me flamebait... by itwerx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but damn dude! Shoot your TV, get a life...
    I haven't had cable in years, and y'know what? When I'm at friends' houses (yeah, I do have friends :) I'm even happier I made that choice.
    The wierd thing is that the longer I don't have it the more I hate it when I do see it. Like reverse withdrawal symptoms or something. TV programming nowadays really is horribly poor quality but it's hard to realise that until you step away for awhile.