How big is your digital video collection?

What a waste of time for the people who have 1TB+ worth of media.

Unless the correct systems are in place with backup if the disks fail, which they will at some point then all is lost.

If I owned the origional I would have rather just took the DVD out of the case and put it in the player.
 
optitech-uk said:
What a waste of time for the people who have 1TB+ worth of media.

Unless the correct systems are in place with backup if the disks fail, which they will at some point then all is lost.

If I owned the origional I would have rather just took the DVD out of the case and put it in the player.
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yet even with dvds that data will eventually be lost? so whats your point??
most people do have backups or do realise when a drive is failing and port over....its not difficult.
 
2TB, 1 for movie collection, 1 for TV, looking to pick up a new storage disk getting a bit low on space.
 
optitech-uk said:
What a waste of time for the people who have 1TB+ worth of media.

Unless the correct systems are in place with backup if the disks fail, which they will at some point then all is lost.

If I owned the origional I would have rather just took the DVD out of the case and put it in the player.
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I hate seeing disks on shelves gathering dust and I hate getting up and messing with disks.

I walk into my home cinema turn on the system and browse my hd content from the comfort of my leather recliner.:D

Its all backed up and with storage so cheap why not.

WHS is the centre of my digital world
 
easyrider said:
I hate seeing disks on shelves gathering dust and I hate getting up and messing with disks.

I walk into my home cinema turn on the system and browse my hd content from the comfort of my leather recliner.:D

Its all backed up and with storage so cheap why not.

WHS is the centre of my digital world
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Just sent you a message through trust about your setup easyrider. I hope you don't mind answering my queries. I didn't want to hijack this thread.
 
About 1gb or films/tv etc.

That is likely to increase as my architect has been today and is drawing up plans for garage conversion with Tv/cinema/office room as the plan for the next few months.
 
easyrider said:
I hate seeing disks on shelves gathering dust and I hate getting up and messing with disks.

I walk into my home cinema turn on the system and browse my hd content from the comfort of my leather recliner.:D

Its all backed up and with storage so cheap why not.

WHS is the centre of my digital world
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Totally agree with you easy. I've got well over 300 + DVDs/Blu rays all available at a touch of a remote button. I've got all the original media if required. In over 20 years of using PCs at home I've had precisely 1 hard disk fail on me. So I can't say I'm worried about that.
 
I've only got about a TB but i only stopped putting stuff onto it due to running out of room. Am looking at getting a decent NAS + RAID 5 or 1+0 as currently my RAID 0 drives aren't the best place to store loads of data :p
 
does sound a really good idea. Having all your films at the touch of a bottom rather than a whole bookcase full of dvds to sort through.

If I was to set up a media PC, is it best to have a small HDD for the Windows installation and then the large drives for storage. Or have a large HDD partitioned into 1 small chuck for windows and the rest for storage?
 
markwilliams82 said:
OK so I'm still new to this media PC stuff.

Whats a WHS? How does it work? and what does it cost? :)
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Windows Home Server.

You stream content from it to your windows 7 HTPC or PS3

Costs about 65 quid...But it backs up your network and backups all your media content even if a drive fials your films and photos music is still safe.

I used to have a HTPC in my cinema room.But I chnaged it to WHS and stream to my PS3

I had a 1TB drive fail on me in my last HTPC and I lost 1TB of DVD rips...Ok it wasn't the end of the world as I owned the disks but they took along to rip and I never wanna have to rip more than once ever again

Works flawlessly
 
Where can you get a WHS from then?

I was just going to set up a HTPC with a couple of large drives in for storage. Might get a small PC/HTPC and WHS now then if its a safer way of doing it
 
markwilliams82 said:
I was just going to set up a HTPC with a couple of large drives in for storage.
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That would work. You could start like that to see if the whole HTPC thing is for you then migrate to either a NAS/Raid combo or WHS if you feel that you need to have a backup. Just note if you are going down the backing up your media route you have to factor that into your space requirements. I backup photos and music but I don't bother with films. A blu ray can take 45gb as it is, I'm not backing that up for something that I own and can rerip if I needed to.
 
45GB for a Bluray will include stuff you don't need like foreign audio tracks and special features...There is no need to extract this stuff when you do a rip.
 
easyrider said:
45GB for a Bluray will include stuff you don't need like foreign audio tracks and special features...There is no need to extract this stuff when you do a rip.
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Aware of that but I'm too lazy to use the tools to extract main movie & desired sound tracks etc. Using AnyDVD to create an ISO is a one click operation. Where I have bothered to do this on a couple of films they still come in at 30 or so gb. At the moment I've got 100 blu rays I can't be bothered to back them up as well as rip them, for me storage isn't quite cheap enough to warrant two copies
 
I have 9TB available on my DroboPro, and have 2TB free space :eek:

I have ripped all my DVDs and Blu-Rays though. (150 DVDs, 110 Blu-Rays, and about 19 different TV shows of varying seasons)
 
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