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Home servers may render CD racks obsolete
Mon, Jul 21 09:56 AM EDT

By Antony Bruno

DENVER (Billboard) - Converting to a fully digitized entertainment library is a good way to cut down on clutter in the house. So what replaces the CD rack once you do?

The 500 GB hard drive that comes standard on most home computers today? Soon, even that won't be big enough to store and organize the massive amount of digital music, video and photography that consumers are accumulating as part of the emerging "terabyte lifestyle."

That opens the door to a new market, one that for now remains a niche afterthought to most people: home servers.

Most digital media today is stored on an individual computer and then synched to one device or another or streamed through a home network to an entertainment system or other appliance.
By contrast, a home server acts as a central storage hub for all the content in the home
multiple devices can link to it in order to stream or otherwise access music, video or other content.