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Pastimes : Home Theater Systems - Designs, Products, Tips and Info
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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (184)7/5/2019 4:39:44 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round   of 418
 
I really don't travel much, so accessing my TV shows and movies outside my home isn't an issue for me. My entire music collection fits on my iPhone, and I travel with an IPad mini I can load movies onto for plane trips if I need to, but outside of that, Netflix has my back and there's usually a decent entertainment system setup wherever I stay anyway.

As for using a RAID NAS system, I'd do it for data integrity. With RAID 5, there is an automatic, fault tolerant backup of anything stored on it. With RAID 6, doubly so. With a RAID 6 setup, not only are there two backups of everything stored on it, two of the hard drives can fail at once and all the data would still be intact. When the bad drives are replaced, the RAID will automatically rebuild itself to have two complete backups again.

Ripping all my DVDs and Blu-rays will take a substantial amount of time. Ripping a single Blu-ray to an MKV file takes about as long as the movie itself takes to watch when viewing it, and the files are large. I don't want to duplicate that effort if I don't have to, I want the data to be well-protected and rock solid, with very little concern about ever losing it to hard drive failure, or even two.

To each his own. That's the beauty of all the technology we have available today for whatever we want to accomplish in a home entertainment system.
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