The thing I'm struggling a bit with is transcoding.
I've also recently got Office 365 Home (with 5 x 1TB OneDrive included) so I'm thinking of using one of the OneDrive accounts to store our critical data as a second backup, synced with a share/volume on the NAS. host our videos, photos, and DVD/BR rips via Plex to a mixture of clients, store our data securely (or at least provide some redundancy), host an iTunes library for Sonos, and no doubt lots more. From what I've read, if I choose the right one, a NAS will allow me to do all of the things we use the Mac for currently, i.e. It will immediately give me some redundancy (2 disk mirror) and I was thinking of going for 2 x 4TB to ensure I have plenty of space for the foreseeable future. So - I've started looking at NAS drives as an alternative to using the Mac. I have a Pioneer USB3 Blu-ray burner arriving tomorrow to be able to do the BR collection.
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In the last few days, as we are locked down, I have my daughters ripping the rest of the collection onto the free space on the 2TB HDD on the Mac mini using MakeMKV, and I'm then adding them all to a queue in Handbrake to convert to M4V files (H.264) which I believe can be played natively by the Roku and our iOS devices. So I'm looking to improve on this and ensure I have some redundancy / resilience, and also rip our collection of DVDs (80 approx) and Blu-rays (70 approx) so that we can simply browse and watch using Plex on any device.Ī few years ago I had a dabble at ripping a few DVDs using Handbrake. We have iPads, iPhones and a couple of new model Roku's attached to our TVs and I installed Plex some time ago on these, and we also have a few Sonos speakers that are connected to the iTunes library too.Īt the moment my data is a bit vulnerable, I basically plug in an external 2.5' HDD and do incremental backups on an ad hoc basis (whenever I remember / feel like it basically!) and then store the backup drive in a secure place.
I currently have a Mac mini (2012, Quad core i7) with 16GB RAM and an internal 2TB HDD which I've been using for the last few years to store our collection of photos, home video clips (mostly from when the kids were young), our iTunes library (approx 100Gb), and other data amassed over the years (the stuff you never seem to delete).
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