Running Out Of Storage Due to Movies Purchased, Help!

Well here I thought "how cool it is to BUY movies, download them into iTunes"...BUT not so great for your iMac storage space. I do not have that many movies but it has used up almost 146 GBs
So reading a very old discussion I wanted to post a new question as of today ... what do all the iMac Pros out there recommend for a good/safe external hard drive for my iMac so I can move my movies off the internal storage and onto the exernal drive? and how much do they cost?
Will I be able to tell itunes which drive to look at when I want to watch movies, say from Apple TV?
I am still a newbie with Mac so not comfortable with just doing this on my own as I would with Winows in years past.
Hope to hear from others soon
Thanks,
KinectGirl8

This is extremely easy, move your iTunes library to an external HD. Apple explains how to do this in iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder located at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449. For an external HD I strongly recommend OWC (www.macsales.com) Mercury Elite Pro series. You can find them at:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
You didn't tell us which iMac you have, if your machine has a Firewire or FW800 port then get one with those ports. If you only have Thunderbolt you can still use those connections but you will require a Thunderbolt to FW adapter available from Apple.
BTW I have 2 Apple TV's and have my complete iTunes library, photos and more on a external OWC HD. I am able to easily stream all of my content to my TV using both AppleTVs, my movie collection is a about 350 movies, well over 30000 songs as well as thousands of photos managed in Aperture.

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