lordjedi said:Stick with hard drives.
Seriously. Unless you need the portability that optical discs offer, just use hard drives. It sounds like you've spent quite a bit on disc space already. You could build a 6 TB RAID 5 array with cheap SATA drives (5 1.5 TB drives in the array). That would give you all kinds of space and some redundancy. And if you want to back that up (which I do recommend), you can get 4 1.5 TB USB drives. Back the whole thing up to the 4 drives and you're all set.
Do you really need all that stuff though? Are you ever going to find time to watch it all? I'm thinking the same thing as C3PX. What good does it do to have all that stuff if you never get to watch it? Do you have parties a lot where you just want to be able to watch whatever you want, whenever you want?
Anyway, the hard drives are probably far more likely to last then the optical media is. Recordable CDs and DVDs are notorious for failing after a few years, so you really are better off having everything in an array on the hard drives.
shhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! don't tell anyone, buts that what i was thinking also, i wanted to
buy a dedicated quad core computer, and set up a raid like the one you mentioned, and
make it media center... that way i can move this current computer to a dedicated video
processing/conversion/editting machine....i already have a dedicated pentium 4 that does
all the downloads 24/7 setup, so i don't have to worry about disk thrashing, space, etc..
3 whole computers!!!! for one person !!! (ridiculous, i know)...
yes, i actually do watch several movies a day, since its winter time here, and i'm not much
of a fan of going out right now..[i do bike/travel in the spring/summer/autumn when the
weathers better here on the east coast of the US]..... but for every bad/cheesy/terrible
movie, there's always some good ones there to watch, and of course a ton of tv shows
that i never got around to watching.............anyways, you can read about my reasons
why above in the reply to c3px..
thankx again for the advice.....honestly, i don't mean to sound like bragging,
but i'm glad i actually have a job that pays well in order to afford this stuff,
because for the longest time, i would just be backlogged with things, and never
could afford the right equipment to set it up correctly..... i guess not having a wife/kids/
girlfriend allows me to have a pretty large discretionary sum of $$$$ to play around
with........and yes, i'm a gadget freak too!!!! [hmmmmmmmmmm....maybe it's time
to buy another widescreen tv that actually supports 1080P!!! must resist sales!!!!!!!!!!!!]
later
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