I have man-years of labor invested in those files. If one has a 16TB NAS one serious consideration is how to back up the NAS. Money was not unlimited but I consider this a long term investment and I was will to go the high road as required.Ĭase considerations. I was over due to upgrade and planning the process for some time. If you having frequent read problems from well used optical drive yours may also be worn out. Worn optical drives at some point are just too much work and get in the way. I'll also observe that I wore out many CD/DVD drives in the process. I own two circa 2009 i7 PC's that I built and I spent many months of very long days ripping and copying those files to my NAS and the old hardware was getting the job done but not quickly with ease. All the music was ripped from my CD collection (zero downloads) and all most all of the videos (very few downloads) are ripped from my DVD and Blu-ray collection. As I sit here I have almost 22,000 songs and a few more than 8,000 videos on my WD EX4 NAS.

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