Storage overkill. How many gigs you got?

[mithrilG60]

Originally Posted by Resipsa

At 6-7 GB per ISO a TB doesn't get you very far. If I ever get a blu ray drive for the computer and start ripping blu rays on to the network I'm going to need a lot more space,

Look into DVDShrink for your DVD collection and strip out all the menu's, extra features etc. and you should be able to get them down to about 4GB per iso. For bluray it makes much more sense to rip to MKV and either get a set-top box like a Popcorn Hour or a media PC to play them. A standard 1080p movie ripped to MKV ranges from is about 9GB to 12GB. Raw bluray rips are in the 45GB range

Originally Posted by systm

You Should check out freeNas its a great server system, and very easy to set up.
Only about 750GBs across all machines, but I need to get a 1TB to start backing up videos to my server/mpd box.

The major downfall with freeNas is it's lack of expandability. Once you create an array you can't expand it or add additional drives to it without loosing all your data.