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phunkey_monkeh
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Im in a right mess. Trying to decide what to go for.
I'll cut to the chase.
I have approx 400 dvd's. I eventually want to store them all on a hard drive. I expect this will take 1-2TB or space, with room for future purchases.
What is the easiest and cheapest way of doing this.
At the moment i only have 1 media pc, but i expect i will have another within the next few months so is will have to be a solution that i can network.
Ive been looking into the possibility of the new Netgear SC101 SAN's. And ive also been looking into the possibility of building another computer simply for hard drives. The advantage of the latter is that its a little easier to customise and i can use a gigabit connection. The netgear solution is only 10/100mbps.
Im also concered about data integrity. I dont want to spend weeks transferring all of this data only to lose a hard drive down the line. But at the same time i cant afford to have expensive raid setups mirroring the data.
I want something where i can add hard drives as i go, as the initial cost of setting up a 2TB drive system is prohibitive, and the more options i look into the more frustrated i become.
Can someone offer a relatively cheap way, and reliable way of doing this. (for the layman i should mention)
Is there anyone else who has transferred there entire DVD collection to a 'server' ?
Thanks in advance.
I'll cut to the chase.
I have approx 400 dvd's. I eventually want to store them all on a hard drive. I expect this will take 1-2TB or space, with room for future purchases.
What is the easiest and cheapest way of doing this.
At the moment i only have 1 media pc, but i expect i will have another within the next few months so is will have to be a solution that i can network.
Ive been looking into the possibility of the new Netgear SC101 SAN's. And ive also been looking into the possibility of building another computer simply for hard drives. The advantage of the latter is that its a little easier to customise and i can use a gigabit connection. The netgear solution is only 10/100mbps.
Im also concered about data integrity. I dont want to spend weeks transferring all of this data only to lose a hard drive down the line. But at the same time i cant afford to have expensive raid setups mirroring the data.
I want something where i can add hard drives as i go, as the initial cost of setting up a 2TB drive system is prohibitive, and the more options i look into the more frustrated i become.
Can someone offer a relatively cheap way, and reliable way of doing this. (for the layman i should mention)
Is there anyone else who has transferred there entire DVD collection to a 'server' ?
Thanks in advance.