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by GeekDad
Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:00 pm
Forum: Technical Tips, Questions & Discussions (Computers & Internet)
Topic: Storing movies on hard drive
Replies: 12
Views: 4714

Re: Storing movies on hard drive

Fixed

RottenApple wrote:I have 2 network attached storage drives, 1 is 3 TB the other is 2 TB, and have all my movies, music, and photos on them. Then I just use iTunes and share them via HomeSharing (built into iTunes). I can access them from any computer in the house, all our Apple mobile devices, and on all our TVs via Apple TV. Using the WD2Go Pro app, I can even access them from my iPhone or iPad when not at home.

Total cost:
NAS drives: $400 (combined)
iTunes: Cost you all the processing power of your machine cause its a virus!
Computers, Apple TVs, iPhones, & iPads: Already owned






PS. Android > iPhone
by GeekDad
Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:14 pm
Forum: Technical Tips, Questions & Discussions (Computers & Internet)
Topic: Storing movies on hard drive
Replies: 12
Views: 4714

Re: Storing movies on hard drive

Beiruty wrote:
GeekDad wrote:Windows Media Center - Enable this on your sever and any windows machine, xbox, or other compatible media source allowed by windows will allow you to share across your network.

If you need storage, get an external Raid 5 array, buy 2TB hard drives and fill up that array. if it has 5 slots you will have a total of 8 TB of space with good read and write speeds.
External RAID with E-SATA-3 running at 5 Gbps would be cool. Running of Ethernet rounters would limit to max of 1 Gbps.

This is what I suggest. :cool:

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by GeekDad
Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:06 pm
Forum: Technical Tips, Questions & Discussions (Computers & Internet)
Topic: Storing movies on hard drive
Replies: 12
Views: 4714

Re: Storing movies on hard drive

Windows Media Center - Enable this on your sever and any windows machine, xbox, or other compatible media source allowed by windows will allow you to share across your network.

If you need storage, get an external Raid 5 array, buy 2TB hard drives and fill up that array. if it has 5 slots you will have a total of 8 TB of space with good read and write speeds.

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