Confused what to do with all my movies on my hard drives

Helen Barber

Helen Barber

Helen Barber

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Would really appreciate any help!

I have 4 hard drives downstairs with all my movies on and they are attached to my nvidia shield TV pro. I have standard bluray as well 4k UHD HDR blurays I have backed up from my collection.

Upstairs I have exactly the same setup (4x drives) with our projector and I treat this as a backup of downstairs, so the odd day I take my laptop upstairs to backup new movies etc.

I'm getting sick of having to keep upstairs the same as downstairs regards backups.

From searching I could buy some type of Raid hardware, attach all 8 drives, which would be perfect!.... But I dont feel confident that 4k bluray HDR movies will freely play smoothly via network, especially if the kids are gaming etc.

The great thing about nvidia shield TV is HDMI output, no loss in playback but doesnt offer any backup.

Can you think of any options please?

I would just love one database with all my movies on that I could freely connect my shields to.


Thanks Greg & Helen
 
jpaul said:
I thought he had implied bandwidth concerns with wireless comms from downstairs to upstairs, in combination with childrens use,
if all the drives were amalgamted downstairs - so the bitrate of 'rips' could be important,
or you'd need wired network on any upstairs tv, or the roku/shield type, sticks attached to them.
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Looking into adding ethernet support, it seems like Plex is the way forward :)

Hopefully I can set my pc to wakeup once plex loads from both Nvidia shields and goes into sleep mode when not in use. My PC has a lot of power hungry devices and wouldn't want it staying on, for obvious reasons :)
 
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