I currently have about 250GB of family pictures, and another 300GB of family video, stored on a pair of 1TB hard drives in a Raid 1 (mirrored) array in my computer. It's a nice way to go for accessibility, but the hard drives are starting to get a little full after some of the other random stuff on those drives like backed up movies and music. I've also done a few backups on Blu-Rays, but at only 25GB a piece for single-layer it takes quite a lot for a full backup...

My next plan is a premium (and admittedly expensive) solution: a large network attached storage (NAS) box for backups and media streaming across the network. I plan to get one something like this set up with 2TB drives in a Raid 5 array:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822122062


I have been looking into a cloud-based solution like Amazon Glacier which isn't too bad (around $10/mo for 1TB, $.01 per GB per mo) and access speed is a serious problem (upload and download). I think uploading my entire setup would take weeks!