I’m in search of a small, travel-sized way to store massive amounts of data, primarily 4K remux movies. I’ll be going to Antarctica, where my internet will be limited. I’ve been told that they have plenty of standard-def movies, a handful of blue rays, and a small-ish collection of HD movies digitally. What they’re missing, they say, is full-bitrate 4K movies, and I want to bring some. I know these films can grow upwards of 30-50GB.
I have been looking at M.2 NVME drives… grabbing a few 2TB drives and enclosures seem like a good option, I think I should be able to squeeze about 40 movies on each (assuming 50gb) drive. Is there a better option? Spinning disk drives are not an option, otherwise I’d grab a 20tb HDD and be done with it. Edit: I see the typo in the title… I can’t change it… it’s supposed to say Travel-Sized Data Hoarding.
I second the ASUSTOR flash NAS. 12 m.2 slots, you can cheap out and get 4TB instead of 8TB drives for better TB/$. Has built in software/OS that’s essentially plug and play into any LAN and you won’t have to tie it to your day to day computer.
Going old school sneakernet style, 1tb or even 500gb microsd cards. Think density in small hard shelled case. You could bring more movies per inch this way
8TB Samsung SSDs are like $350-400 bucks. Another $20 for an enclosure. May be a better $/GB than 2TBs. Even at 50 gigs a piece thats 160 movies.
I have a media server built in an Apache 1800 case with four 2tb 2.5" ssds in it.
If I where doing this, I would fill a hard case with nvme drives or 2.5" ssds and put 4k remuxes if you’re dead set on 4k, or 1080p remuxes, the ones on my server are 6-8 GB. Yes, you can get super high capacity ssds, but they are real expensive. The reason I have 2.5" drives in my box was price. I paid $50 for each one.