I’d like input on how some of you store, consume & protect your media. I have a rather limited knowledge of hardware and also limited floor space & plugs in my surge protector. My current PC has 2 2TB internal hard drives and no Wi-Fi Card from when it was rebuilt 2yrs ago.

Basically, I want something I can store a LOT of video (let’s say 10T+), stream it to my devices, have some type of backup of the material and protection from power failures.

I’ve heard many terms like Media Server, NAS, Raid, UPS & services like Sync.com, etc. and have tried sorting through various videos on YouTube but it just confuses me more.

Any positive responses would be most appreciated!

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    NAS: little box of disks that sits on a shelf or rack Media Server: just something that makes media files available for whatever. Could be a network drive you attach to from your desktop, or a streaming server for music or video RAID: mirrored drives. If you have two drives in a NAS, you can mirror them with RAID1 so if one fails, you can replace it with the data on the second drive UPS: just a battery backup device you plug things into

    So these are just various things you can combine to make a larger system. You don’t NEED a NAS for instance, you can just have a machine that serves files to your network. You don’t NEED a media server unless you want those features.

    You pick and choose what you want to do, then piece all these things together to make a larger functional system that does what you want.

    Maybe a better approtis asking here what you actually want, and then people can suggest solutions for that.