Hi ...
let's have a discussion about storage space ..
Do you like to store/collect movies or series ? or you delete them right after watching ?
What do you keep mostly ?
What storage device you get ? How much capacity ?
What's your plans for future data storage ?


Personally , my laptop has 320 GB hard ..
and I got 1 TB external hard drive .. it's about to get full ..I'm planning on buying new one .. maybe 2TB this time
I like to keep some series and movies and definitely a lot of tutorials , books and videos .

What about you?

We all started with some GB hard drive (80GB for me some 15 years ago ) and have ended up to numerous 2 and 3TB external ones.....
You cant' help it, @limfx. If you want to keep your movies, music etc, same time will come for you also, real soon!

I also keep my most important files to two same sized hard drives, as a back up, to avoid any painful loss.

I use to burn movies and series to dvds, but it is certainy tiring and boring, especially if you d/l lots of movies every...day ....!

Originally Posted by RossoBreitner

I use to burn movies and series to dvds, but it is certainy tiring and boring, especially if you d/l lots of movies every...day ....!

Back in the day my dad did this as well and I never understood why. We've got a cupboard full of all his CDs/DVDs which he never touches and are pretty much obsolete in this day and age. He's got this filing system to rival a national library but I've never seen him pull out a DVD to watch a movie again haha.

I personally store all my downloaded stuff on a 3TB hard drive which is constantly connected to my laptop to rack up those seed points. It's getting full though so I'll most likely be investing in another one soon and getting a USB hub to have everything running round the clock.

Come to think of it I think we all suffer from some element of hoarding lol.

I built a home media server with 8 x 4 TB Hard drives running Windows 7 and using Flex raid. It runs 24/7 using sonarr for auto tv downloading and plex as a home media server. Epic machine and was cheaper than you might expect. LOVE IT!!

Originally Posted by beninho

Back in the day my dad did this as well and I never understood why. We've got a cupboard full of all his CDs/DVDs which he never touches and are pretty much obsolete in this day and age. He's got this filing system to rival a national library but I've never seen him pull out a DVD to watch a movie again haha.

I personally store all my downloaded stuff on a 3TB hard drive which is constantly connected to my laptop to rack up those seed points. It's getting full though so I'll most likely be investing in another one soon and getting a USB hub to have everything running round the clock.

Come to think of it I think we all suffer from some element of hoarding lol.

It is very easy to understand.
Many of people who like movies, especially not the mainstream ones, consider each movie as a unique being, having its own substance, do it deserves a nice and special treatment

Like all retail dvds or BDs, it deserves to be burned to disk, having a custom or retail cover etc.
I realise that some of them, like your dad, rarely pull out a DVD to watch a movie again.
May be because every day more movies are added to the collection!
Although I can understand his point, which could be same for me.

At least to me, the point is to have every movie in order, to a certain place, visible (because even seeing a home made dvd case with a movie can be ..pleasure, like seeing and enjoying a collection of vinyl records ) and then to have the option to pull out any of them and watch it!

About your 3TB hard drive storage, I am sure you will find out that is is very liittle, especially if you like HD or full dvd movies.
In that case, and since you do not burn dvds to gain hard drive space, you will find out ....really soon

I use DVD-R for writing movies/tvseries and i got nowdays like 15-20 TB HDD .

I currently have stop collecting anything expect anime + documents which i am writing them in DVD-R which is safer than my damn HDD

Originally Posted by Simoss

I built a home media server with 8 x 4 TB Hard drives running Windows 7 and using Flex raid. It runs 24/7 using sonarr for auto tv downloading and plex as a home media server. Epic machine and was cheaper than you might expect. LOVE IT!!

8 x4 TB ?
this is amazing..how much did that cost you ?
and how to build it ?

The 8 hard drives cost just north of a thousand dollars. It is a pretty standard motherboard, doesn't need to be super high end, and I5 cpu. Google flex raid and plex is the best media server in my opinion.

@Simoss

what is ur PLex client? samsung tv'?roku?

I use roku's on my tv, web app on my laptop while traveling and app on iPad.