It will be a little expensive but it's worth every dollar you will spend on it. You want to build a server with around 10TB of space, that makes 10000GB of space. It's almost endless considering today's requirements. The objective is ensuring that your server's space never ends and that you can continuously add movies, music and pictures to it.
This works for laptops as well as for desktop computers. Since the server will not be directly connected with the client with any cable, it will run perfectly on any laptop.
The first thing you need to buy is a cheap desktop computer. After that you will need to buy 20 hard disks of 500GB each. That's makes 10TB. How to connect all those hard disks. You will need a special cable inside the machine and if you do not have enough space you can always buy them as external hard disks that will connect using USB ports. Now turn on the computer. You don't want to have 20 disks as the main drive, do you? The next thing to do is to use RAID technology to make all those 20 hard disks act like one. You can opt for RAID 0 which is all of them running at the same time like one but I really don't recommend it because if you fails, every one fails as well, you won't be able to recover any data. I suggest you to run them like one but one at a time. When one fills, the computer will go to another.
You don't need to buy a powerful processor nor a huge amount of RAM. The desktop will act ONLY as a storage device.
The connection will be made using wireless technology. You will need a wireless router and you will need to make your own wireless network. Just make sure you encrypt it.
The laptop will connect to the desktop by wireless and will be able to retrieve any kind of data using Windows Explorer, Media Player or any other software like if the disks were inside the laptop itself.
With 10TB of storage you can actually have more than 10 years of music in MP4 format. That makes money audio that you can ever listen I guess!
First off all, this works...but it doesn\'t work well, first you need to have a huge pc or many,many usb ports.
Can you imagine it, a pc with 20 slots for hard disk? Or 20 USB ports?
Second, you say the CPU nor the RAM matter, well it does.
Your pc will be very slow with 10 TB, actually it probably would take multiple minutes to find a file.
The idea is nice, but that\'s all that is, an idea.