Best storage for movies and photos?

I would like to remove my home movies and photos from my hard drive but still have easy access. What is the best way to do this? Online storage? who one? or external drive? how big? fast connection wire?
I plan on upgrading my imac soon but want to clean this one up for my kids...as it si very slow and maxed out on space due to large cache of home movies and photos.
Any recommendations?

An external hard drive is best and fastest. Don't get "just any" model. The name-brand units that go on sale every weekend at "Computers R Us" are often so Windows-centric that they work poorly on many Macs.
I buy all our external drivers from this online vendor:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
Every one has been rock solid and well worth the extra money. I get ones with FireWire. They are faster than USB2 on older Macs (I assume yours is pre-2006 as you are posting here??)
Note that I linked models that use standard desktop 3.5-inch drive and have their own power supply. They are the most reliable.
Online storage has two limitations: 1) the speed and quality of your connection will cause variations in transfer speed, and 2) the software itself often slows your computer.

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The quickest way (and really the only way) to charge your iPad is with the included 10W USB Power Adapter. iPad will also charge, although more slowly, when attached to a computer with a high-power USB port (many recent Mac computers) or with an iPhone Power Adapter (5W). When attached to a computer via a standard USB port (most PCs or older Mac computers) iPad will charge very slowly (but iPad indicates not charging). Make sure your computer is on while charging iPad via USB. If iPad is connected to a computer that’s turned off or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPad battery will continue to drain.
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http://www.macblend.com/how-to-calibrate-your-mac-iphone-or-ipad-battery/
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Hello, eco1.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
This sounds like you are wanting to move your iTunes media folder to an external drive and have iTunes this folder from this location. If this is the case then I would recommend taking a look at the article below.
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Text, the best way is to take screen shots, or if you can forward them to your email. Your notes are either saved by your email or with icoud. They can help you find out where they are saved at.
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It sounds like your Apple TV is having trouble streaming videos from iTunes on your computer. This symptom could have a variety of causes, and I'd suggest the following initial troubleshooting steps.
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DC with DNS should point to another DNS server as primary and itself as secondary or tertiary. It should not point to self as primary due to various DNS islanding and performance issues that can occur. And when referencing a DNS server on itself, a DNS client
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