What is the best place to store movie content?

I was storing my movies that I converted from dvd in a separate folder on another drive. Then I ran the consolidation option and it copied them to my music folder, within a sub folder called movies.
Should I store them there to start with? or is there any best practices for storing them separate from itunes music and just pointing to them? I did this in the past, changed to a larger hard drive and lost all of my pointers.
Any suggestions?

I think it really depends on the system you have, where you store the iTunes library and how much free space you have on the main/boot drive of the computer.
Many people use external drives, which are cheap these days, and high capacity to store the whole iTunes library and that is the option I prefer - yes it's an all eggs in one basket solution, but so long as you have the original files copied elsewhere too then there's some redundancy.
For me the benefits are:
- dedicated drive (or drives) for media
- when upgrade required capacity wise could just add another ext drive and link or span the drives, or move library to higher capacity drive
- less wear and tear on the system/boot drive
- conserves space on my modestly size iMac system/boot drive
I don't think there's a one size fits all answer, but if I have redundant copies elsewhere, then it makes more sense to have a dedicated library drive that might go belly up due to frequent use when streaming, but keeps media off the system/boot drive.
AC

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