# Ran out of room in HTPC

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**Created:** [February 13, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ran-out-of-room-in-htpc/250297 "2010-02-13T14:44:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shawn96VR-4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Shawn96VR-4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shawn96VR-4)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ran-out-of-room-in-htpc/250297/8 "2010-02-15T05:51:25Z")

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> [@Don't like your roommate?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dont-like-your-roommate/29306/7):
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> How much total space you got? Me thinks you need 2 of the biggest SATA drives out there lol.
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> I wouldn’t put the drive on the PSU. Those things get warm.

I have 8-10TB total.

> [@Crazy Police chase](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-police-chase/29308/4):
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> Lots of options:
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> 1. Replace multiple smaller drives with one large drive (or two large drives).
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> 2. Get a good ESATA external drive.
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> 3. Get a larger case and PSU.
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> 4. I’m sure this thing is attached to your network, why not just have another computer (with lots-o-space) serve your media?
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> 4a. NAS device.
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> 1. Donate to me 🙂

I am going to go NAS. I just didn’t want to go on another project right now.

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