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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Best solution for my storage problem? (alien.top)

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Hi All,

Currently have 2 x 16TB hard drives containing movie files plugged directly into my router to share across my network. Works flawlessly. This is in a cupboard under the stairs.

One of the drives is full and the other is close to being full so I’m going to have to think about a different arrangement once I buy a third 16TB HDD (router only has 2 x USB ports).

The setup will have to remain in the cupboard under the stairs so space is limited. Initial thought is to buy a Surface Pro and a multi HDD dock to go into the SP and then gigabit into the router.

Interested to hear any other possible ideas.

TIA 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could this work for you?

Syba 8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swappabe 2.5" 3.5" SATA Non Raid External USB 3.0 Enclosure SY-ENC50119Syba 8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swappabe 2.5" 3.5" SATA Non Raid External USB 3.0 Enclosure SY-ENC50119