Technical Question for all of you geeks: Storage for my music collection
I’m going to raise a technical question to the readers of this blog or anyone else who wants to chime in. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and I’ll try and follow up in the comments area.
As many of you know, I’m borderline obsessed with the Dave Matthews Band. The great thing about the band is that you can download their live concerts from different file sharing programs. My end goal: to have the largest repository of Dave Matthews Band shows in the world, to be played on my home network. I realize that this is going to take a lot of storage facility to make this happen, which is why I’m reaching out to everyone because I have no idea where to begin.
A little background about my home network: Optimum Cable is my bandwidth provider. We have a full Apple Inc. network including their Airport Extreme and all of our computers are Mac’s (iBook G4, Macbook, iMac 24″, AppleTV, etc).
How would you set this up? How would you go about building the largest catalog? I wouldn’t mind allowing people to download from my servers if my network was live (on the internet) at home but I need to becareful about ‘hacking’ into my network. I’m looking for thoughts from the hardware/technical implementation and the software (getting the music) side. We’re talking TB’s worth of data – and to be able to expand.
How would you approach this?