Films-music-photos,

donny-gal

I have been gradually digitising our music, photos, films together, still a way to go, but getting there. However, how to store and use them is my next thought process. As the main TV living area is at one end of the bungalow with the router, and PC at with homeplug/wifi extender at te other, I was wondering whether a wireless hard drive with these files Stored on would be the way to go, as their main use would be in the living area.

Any thoughts ideas appreciated. DG

[Deleted User]

We've got a NAS plugged into our router; which then enables anything on wifi to read from it. It's not perfect, but it works very well using DLNA on our TV.

Try posting in the techie forum

donny-gal

Which techie forum do you mean? DG

[Deleted User]

Techie stuff - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29

You need to consider how you're going to consume this music/video/photos on your devices also. You can just view the content of a NAS as a drive on your computer. Sometimes you might use an app or your NAS drive may have a special webpage you access.

donny-gal

To go - thought I was on Techie Stuff???

debitcardmayhem

donny-gal wrote: »

To go - thought I was on Techie Stuff???

Nah you are on planet earth :rotfl:

aerostar

Do remember that if your current storage is the ONLY place you have your archive, when the hard drive goes phut!, as anything mechanical will do at some time, you will loose the lot.

Have an alternative copy of your archive on something else, and really you should keep it off site...fire, flood etc precaution, no point in keeping both in the same place if the worst happens - you loose both copies.

How many times have you seen on this site people asking for help as their precious photos etc are not retrievable due to failed drive etc., and no backups.

donny-gal

Morning All
debitcardmayhem Only now and again!;)

aerostar Thanks, I had a USB drive fail on me many years ago,and do try to keep at least 2 copies of anything important, and also use Justcloud for really critical things. Belt & Braces maybe but better than the other option. My problem is I have got USB's as I have needed them, and they will be retained as backups, but now need something to keep everything in one place, which can be accessed without input from me.

I was just doublechecking my thoughts on a NAS drive, and think it may be the way to go.

Thanks everyone.
DG

Strider590

I think most routers now let you plug in a USB hard drive to act as a NAS.
But it really all depends on how your devices are going to access this data, a NAS is not going to magically start playing your favourite tunes on the your stereo/TV/etc.

Oh and with regard to cloud storage, if you rip your CDs/DVDs to create digital files, any cloud storage you use can and sometimes will delete any content it deems may be pirated material, even if you copied it from your own stuff.