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How to 'future proof' storage of movies on external drives?
I'm getting close to the point where I'll need to purchase a third large external hard drive for storing movies. Having movies strewn across multiple external drives isn't exactly efficient, so I was wondering what other people do to future proof their collection so they can easily search all the movies, or easily expand the storage capabilities? I know of things like the Drobo, but that's not exactly something in my price range. I'm looking for something easy and cheap, hopefully taking advantage of the external drives I already have.
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To the first answerer: I already have a 1TB NAS, which is full. I also have a 2TB external drive which is approaching full.
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
Look for multidrive NAS. I have NAS with two 2TB drives, I think you can find for 4 drives too. It is handy when the drives are in RAID and visible as a single drive in Windows.
For managing and searching my movie collection I am using All My Movies program:
http://www.bolidesoft.com/allmymovies.html
Each movie record in my database is linked to the actual video file and I can start playback of the selected movie in a single click. Currently, I am quite happy with my solution :)