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Robmoo

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A buddy who is in IT, he has a degree in network engineering and does service and sales, asked why I hadn't moved my movie storage to the cloud. This morning I was looking at SSDs as a storage alternative. At $580 for a 8TB drive that isn't an option. I have 8TB HD x3 and a 4TB drive for OTA recordings. I have plenty of space on these drives. I often download large movie files that have all of the movie content. So I have room to compact these files.

Has anyone moved there movie content to the cloud? If you did so, do you still have an HTPC to run Plex Server or did you find a service that allowed for running Plex in the cloud also?
 
I don't know why someone would do that unless they are just doing it for backup purposes or just loaded and don't care about money. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be paying for tens of TBs of storage each month plus bandwidth costs.

Any particular reason you were looking at ssds for an alternative? It doesn't make much sense with serving media files unless you just want to throw money away. You can fairly regularly get 12-16TB spinners for around $200 or so, which when in a raid configuration of 10 or 6 would give plenty of speed to serve even your highest bitrate content, but you can also setup an SSD or use RAM for cache too (I have a RAM cache set-up on my Plex server)
 
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