02-04-2009, 10:32 PM
Right now I have a 1tb drive labeled "TV Shows" and a 1tb drive labeled "Movies". In addition I have a 1tb drive labeled "tv shows backup". I don't have a backup disc for the movies yet but I plan to add one soon.
How to handle this large volume of data affordably is a big problem. I recently solicited opinions of the Drobo which is something of a hardware raid box. Unfortunately it is $450 just for the box and you add drives to it. I have also looked at the dual drive boxes offered from OWC but if memory serves me correctly they only support drives up to 1.5tb. Sooo, I'm not really sure what I'll do next besides cross my fingers.
I will interject an opinion on one point of Article Accelerator and Filliam's love fest. The ATV only supports playback of h264 and mpeg4 video files in it's stock format. Since 99% of downloadable video on the internet is in the divx format, and osx plays back divx files perfectly, we have to assume apple is distancing itself from illegal downloads by purposely not supporting divx. I think this is a mistake and has hurt their widespread adoption. If they supported divx I say they would 10x their sales.
How to handle this large volume of data affordably is a big problem. I recently solicited opinions of the Drobo which is something of a hardware raid box. Unfortunately it is $450 just for the box and you add drives to it. I have also looked at the dual drive boxes offered from OWC but if memory serves me correctly they only support drives up to 1.5tb. Sooo, I'm not really sure what I'll do next besides cross my fingers.
I will interject an opinion on one point of Article Accelerator and Filliam's love fest. The ATV only supports playback of h264 and mpeg4 video files in it's stock format. Since 99% of downloadable video on the internet is in the divx format, and osx plays back divx files perfectly, we have to assume apple is distancing itself from illegal downloads by purposely not supporting divx. I think this is a mistake and has hurt their widespread adoption. If they supported divx I say they would 10x their sales.