With this drive, having a movie server (DVD rips) in addition to a MP3 server is starting to reach the realm of feasibility. Say a movie can be ripped and compressed to about 5GB each, and use 10GB as a conservative average for uncompressed rips. With 4 or 5 of those 500GB drives, you've got 250 uncompressed or 500 compressed movies available at the press of a key.

Still nothing compared to having my ridiculously large CD collection online (60,000 tracks), but it will be cool. I don't think the movie server would be "lifestyle changing" in the way that MP3 has been for me (or TiVo is for others), but it would still be cool.

J