Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage?

i_ate_god writes "I download a lot of 720/1080p videos, and I also produce a lot of raw uncompressed video. I have run out of slots to put in hard drives across two computers. I need (read: want) access to my files at all times (over a network is fine), especially since I maintain a library of what I've got on the TV computer. I don't want to have swappable USB drives, I want all hard drives available all the time on my network. I'm assuming that, since it's on a network, I won't need 16,000 RPM drives and thus I'm hoping a solution exists that can be moderately quiet and/or hidden away somewhere and still keep somewhat cool. So Slashdot, what have you done?"

Paranoia

[Anonymous Coward]

So Slashdot, what have you done?

Why? What have you heard??

Cheap solution

[tomhudson]

1. create a million gmail accounts (or buy them from spammers in bulk at 3 for a penny
2. link the accounts as one big drive [wikipedia.org]
3. 640k petabytes ought to be enough ...

Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, we'll be right over and take care of everything. You'll never have to worry about it again.

MPAA

P.S. My sister, Riaa wants to know if you're into MP3s

Sounds like one hell of a porn collection

[Trailer Trash]

/. is definitely the place to ask...

pervert

[Cyko_01]

I download a lot porn, and I also record a lot of masturbating videos. I have filled two computers with porn already. I want access to my porn at all times, especially since I maintain a porn site. I don't want to have swappable USB drives, I want all my porn available all the time on my network. I'm assuming that, since it's on a network, I won't need 16,000 RPM drives and thus I'm hoping a solution exists that can be disguised or stashed away and not overheat. So Slashdot, what have you done?

Oracle Sun Fire X4540

[xavi62028]

48 SATA drives onboard a 4U rack, dual six-core opterons, redundant power supply. This thing won't let you down. Go big and heavy with this and it'll cost $1/GB. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/031210.htm [oracle.com] Make sure to ask for a discount, only suckers pay full price for Oracle gear.

Re:Why do you need them available at all times?

[clarkn0va]

I see you've never tried to maintain a ratio on a private tracker.

Re:Define "massive"

[Mr_Insightful]

How much data constitutes "massive"?

640K of memory should be enough for anybody.