Advice on storage needed . . .

[Neil Fuller <neil.fuller@xxxxxxxxx>]

At the risk of sending Phil in to a frenzy!! . . . . . .

I've just got a Popcorn Hour and I've started "backing up" all my
DVDs.

So far, I've ripped about 100 out of about 500 and I'm already beginning
to run out of space.

Phil previously advised ripping to ISO and I'm quite happy with that but
it does take quite a bit of space. So, I need to move in to a bigger NAS.

I currently have a 1.5TB NAS (Buffalo Terra station) but that also hosts
about 500GB of work data and all the MP3's, pictures, scanned documents
etc etc so I've not got a lot of space left.

Drobo's 8 bay NAS looks quite attractive, especially because it will
take any disk of any size and seems to still offer RAID.

Buffalo have an 8TB rack mountable version of the Terra Station out and
that too looks appealing.

In the past, I've read so many stories of "my home brew NAS RAID card
has just trashed all my storage" I'd prefer to go down the purpose
built
route. I also want everything to be available all the time so it needs
to be big - Telling SWMBO she needs to plug in x or y USB 2 drive to get
access to her DVDs wouldn't go down well.

Obviously budget is a consideration but I'm looking for best value
rather than cheapest.

I'll be interested in all replies although, obviously, I'll disregard
any of Phil's suggestions simply because I can't afford the cost of
laying in the 3 phase mains power supply to power whatever Phil
suggests!!!!! ;-)

Cheers

Neil


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