HD Music enthusiasts? A helper?

[badbadboy]

I'm a CD/Vinyl guy and have been migrating a fair bit of my music to HD aka FLAC etc Portability is great but I am finding storing large music files a pain without a large bandwidth cloud. Soundcloud limits don't work for HD files that are > 8 minutes IMO. (I'm of that age when music was 3 minutes or less but loved the songs that were 7 or 10 minutes long aka Anthem type songs. I just listened to Layla on vinyl)

A lot of my large files are unable to upload to Soundcloud.....

I've found I need a pointer or two internet-wise where to go for this sort of info:


Soundcloud - I want my files in a cloud but found their BW limits a pain. If your FLAC file is > ( I think they said 172 MB ) where else can I host my music?
I got a deal through VOX for Soundcloud assuming it would be an unlimited service for the music promoted through VOX. I found out otherwise and lots of songs are not up in the cloud.

Where else can I host music without a bandwidth limit that doesn't cost a crazy amount?

Storage - I have put a fair amount of this music on older HDD's. They are 5+ years old and still spinning. I want to migrate these old tunes (half of which I ripped last year).

Without having to sell a kidney, where can I get a Mac compatible SSD drive > 1 TB? I have a Transcend drive and like them but I don't see a > 1 TB SSD. I want to put music plus HD video on at portable drivel.

 

[Warl0ck]

Samsung makes a portable SSD drive that's greater than 1 TB which is Mac compatible. https://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-T3-Po...qid=1485068985&sr=1-1&keywords=Samsung+SSD+T3

 

[cktc9]

I've been using the small usb powered hard drives, most recently a 4 Tb Seagate from NCIX.

The SSD option is expensive. Do you mean an internal drive, or an external drive?
The benefit of SSD is transfer speed, and best for frequently used program and data files..
I added a (second ssd) 500Gb internal to my laptop, it's convenient for a stack of movies/concerts, etc, but nowhere near large enough to hold everything.
It's nice for having the OS on one, and the progs/data on the other.

A usb 3 drive is plenty fast enough for entertainment files, and certainly faster than any cloud service.

I have about 8 Tb in ripped files (from my own disks, better quality control), ranging in size from ~30Gb blue-ray mkv's, down to multi Mb wav and mp3.
The usb 3 drives are fast enough to play the big files immediately, and allow instant scanning forward-backward in MPC-HC x64.

I don't have web service anywhere near fast enough to upload 8 Tb in less than 50 days, even uploading non-stop.
You must have very fast service...