This is an interesting idea and I would recommend insurance:
"I built a 5-terabyte media server with 20 250GB hard drives--it uses a pair of 500-watt power supplies and has 12 fans running full blast to keep cool. It stores more than 500 of my DVDs, categorized by title, director etc., which it streams to my home-theater PC over a gigabit Ethernet connection."
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