How big is your digital video collection?

InvaderGIR · 18 Jul 2010 at 17:33

500GB drive houses my Video media (films, tv etc.)...but is only 381GB full
80GB of music though.

I like to hoard media/digital content, but as I can't be bothered to buy more drives as I don't need to have loads I've cut it down a lot.

easyrider · 18 Jul 2010 at 18:33

About 8TB here stored on my WHS

Azra · 18 Jul 2010 at 18:40

Across the full network (inc the WHS) about 22tb and counting..... Could easily hit 100tb if I had a) the space for a big server rack b) the cash lol as I still have 1000+ of DVDs / Laser Discs etc unconverted.

marc2003 · 18 Jul 2010 at 19:44

90GB.

wellibob · 18 Jul 2010 at 20:04

6 TB on my WHS. 80% full of bits and bobs

PhillyDee · 18 Jul 2010 at 20:30

891 Gb, that using h.264 format at roughly 1gb per hour of video.

ALL mine is legit as well. Can the rest of you say that . . .

All on WHS with 5 1tb drives. Once the 2tb drives are cheap enough, I am going to start replacing them.

Slogan · 18 Jul 2010 at 21:45

Just over 2TB at the moment.

cram · 19 Jul 2010 at 09:31

PhillyDee said:
ALL mine is legit as well. Can the rest of you say that . . .

You do know that circumnavigating copy protection in the UK is illegal even if you own a legit copy of the film?

no_1_dave · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:34

1TB SD movies (about 800 of them)
1TB HD movies 10GB - 20GB each
1TB TV shows (some HD)

mast3r · 20 Jul 2010 at 11:27

4TB on the NAS,
2TB on the internal HTPC Drive
6TB on my PC

Plus a few 500gb EXT.

Total of 12TB, Excluding the ext drives, as they have other content on.

markwilliams82 · 20 Jul 2010 at 12:49

Where do you get all the digital video from?

Aren't you all worried that something may go wrong with the hard drives and loose everything? I'm starting to think about building a media PC so will be building my own collection up

lurkio · 20 Jul 2010 at 13:32

I have mine on a NAS box qnap-409
It has RAID 5 and currently holds about 4,100 Gig of movies tv shows etc

paulh · 20 Jul 2010 at 21:37

I've got 600gb on a 1tb nas, I've just started ripping my DVD collection and only done about 30% so far! Gonna need another drive or 2 me thinks...

Macky · 20 Jul 2010 at 21:41

All legally obtained I am presuming?

To everyone by the way.

PhillyDee · 20 Jul 2010 at 23:11

cram said:
You do know that circumnavigating copy protection in the UK is illegal even if you own a legit copy of the film?

It just fell off!

markwilliams82 · 21 Jul 2010 at 08:26

really? so even if you own the dvd/blu ray etc you cant legally copy it to a hard drive for quicker access?

paulh · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:26

i thought you could have 1 "back up copy"? if you own the disc?

markwilliams82 · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:45

Do you not get worried about HDDs breaking so you loose everything? I'd be gutted to loose 1-2TBs of stuff

PhillyDee · 21 Jul 2010 at 13:48

markwilliams82 said:
Do you not get worried about HDDs breaking so you loose everything? I'd be gutted to loose 1-2TBs of stuff

personally, no. I have all the dvds anyway, plus everything is stored on my WHS with full duplication.

cram · 21 Jul 2010 at 20:49

markwilliams82 said:
really? so even if you own the dvd/blu ray etc you cant legally copy it to a hard drive for quicker access?

In the UK no. Some studios are looking into allowing a backup for bluray. But as things stand at the moment if you break someones copy protection that's illegal.