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External or Portable Hard Drive

  • 20-08-2012 6:22pm
    #1
    Jayob10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys, have over 900 dvds and i'm looking for a hard drive to put them onto.

    I'd like one that can be hooked up to my tv directly (if this possible at all). Also it would be handy if there was a search function to select a particular movie rather than trawling through them all. I'd be looking to get a decent make aswell, something i'll have for a lifetime to ensure I don't lose all my movies.

    Also can someone tell me what I should be looking for in terms of size/usage?

    Would 2tb be big enough to hold 900 dvds worth?


    cheers in advance


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    If you ripped them without compressing, I would expect 900 DVDs to take up about 4.5TB. More if you want all the extras and langauge tracks.

    You can make them smaller by encoding the video to H.264 and taking only one audio track. For good quality (as close to the DVD as possible) I would expect it to take about 1.5TB.

    However good quality encoding needs good settings, which increases encoding time. 900 DVDs? You are looking at weeks and weeks in front of the computer. Do you have a powerful CPU?

    After investing all that time into ripping and encoding, it won't be enough to simply trust a 'good brand' hard-drive. You'll want redundant storage or a backup.


  • #3
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,049 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    If you take an average size of 5GB ..... mostly 4.3GB DVDs ...... then

    900 x 5GB = 4,500GB = 4.5TB

    Of course if you have mostly bigger DVDs then the size changes .

    It would take a huge amount of time to rip 900 DVDs to make them smaller, so that doesn't seem to be a good idea either.


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