How much memory is taken up and how many shows do you have downloaded?

Thinking of purchasing a HD specific to this and want to make sure I size it properly to be future proof for the next 5 or so years.

How much memory is taken up and how many shows do you have downloaded?Thinking of purchasing a HD specific to this and want to make sure I size it properly to be future proof for the next 5 or so years.

@wisc4fun - without doing some serious adding up, the 4k shows average 1.7 to 1.8 gB each. This compares to closer to 500mB for 3k shows. I now have 360 4K shows downloaded out of around 1600 and my models folder is 1.4tB on an external HD of 4tB.

So - you need to project based on your purchasing habits - if you buy 300 shows a year for 5 years you will need (I think) 2.7tB of space - and you should double that to allow for backup across two devices. And that is just for new releases - assume that you build up a similar collection to me of old shows and previous 4k shows and you will be looking at 4.1tB for each copy (primary and back up).

So a 6tB device is probably best - but I'm sure @Wyldanimal can advise on use of RAID devices.

HTH

My collection is about 2800 cards. It occupies 2.5 TB and all the cards in 4K are loaded as 4K. I'd estimate that the 4K cards require about 1 GB each. I buy about 2/3 of the cards at the time they are released and have no desire to buy the others. That means I'll need to move to a larger disk in about a year. You don't want to fill more than about 90% of a disk.