Commentary of the day: Storage of information

UPDATE : The undisputed winner of the competition and the owners of the new HP ProLiant Microserver became Awake for a detailed story about the futuristic home file storage! Thanks to all participants!

Detailed posts about small , but daring HP MicroServer appeared on Habré before the New Year holidays. Many have already managed to get a home or office pet for themselves and play enough with it. Judging by the reviews, most often MicroServer is used as an alternative to a ready-made NAS with advanced features and a pleasant interface and design for the host.

And today we would like to talk about home data warehousing in general. The higher the capacity of hard drives, the more data users generate - sometimes it seems that there is a direct relationship. I didn’t have time to go to terabytes, as affordable HD-video cameras appeared everywhere. Yes, and home libraries DVD and Blu-Ray, it's time to transfer to modern rails. On the abundance of "heavy" content on torrents tactfully keep silent. Togo and look hard drives crack at the seams!
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So we want to ask you: how do you solve the problem of storing films, photos, videos and other informational wealth? Collecting with the world on a string of components for self-assembling "file file"? Are you building a glamorous 50 TB plexiglas store on a balcony (a place that is significant for Habr)? Buy "factory" NAS? If you buy, how do you “finish” for your needs?

Read a lot of interesting stories in the comments.

PS Cover photo: The HP C2247 1 GB hard drive is a higher-end product, the choice of professionals! (1994)