Does your music collection take up acres of shelf space? Do you spend hours alphabetizing your CDs or get frustrated because the jewel case of your favorite CD somehow doesn’t contain that CD? What about movies? Do you have piles of DVD cases scattered in the back of your media room and can never find the one you want?

Digitizing your entire media collection can solve those problems, and NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives the size of paperback books can hold thousands of CDs or hundreds of movies. NAS drives from Seagate (pictured), Western Digital, Buffalo and others are easy to use and inexpensive. Many smart TVs or home theater receivers can easily connected to NAS deives via a home network, allowing you access to all your content. If you’re a Control4 system user than an application called My Movies by Extra Vegetables can make your music or movie collection available via the Control4 interface for a very inexpensive audio/video server.