Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, “streaming anxiety” is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

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      11 months ago

      I have a 12tb external HDD for now, set it up with an Emby server so I can access it anywhere. Total cost was around $200. Gonna replace it with a NAS with like 80TB so I can keep it safe forever. This is the way.

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        11 months ago

        Rather than a NAS, consider building an Unraid server, I built my first one from old hardware that I repurposed, my current one is a little more sophisticated but not over the top.

        Unraid can be setup as an automated media server with all the ARRs running to manage your library.

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        11 months ago

        Storj.io has great prices for storage, and using apps like Duplicati you can run backups to storj. Be worth starting there, so your stuff is backed up, then work on a NAS.

        Evem with that backup, I’d work on a second backup solution. I’ve been screwed by a combo of RAID failure and Crashplan fuckage, twice. The rule of 3 backups exists for a reason.