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Re: Downloaded amountI'm curious what everyone is doing with all these files. Right now I burn mine to disk. Over the years I have burned over 10,000 4.7g DVDs all cataloged on excel sheets. Lately I'm tiring of the work and thinking maybe large external storage drives may be easier. What's cheaper tho? |
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 ExodusYour Daddy
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Exodus
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Do what everyone else does and just set up a media center. Serve your media up via IP rather than DVD. |
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 hitachi369Embrace Your Rights
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Cincinnati, OH
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said by jlo14566:I'm curious what everyone is doing with all these files. Right now I burn mine to disk. Over the years I have burned over 10,000 4.7g DVDs all cataloged on excel sheets. Lately I'm tiring of the work and thinking maybe large external storage drives may be easier. What's cheaper tho?
I download what I plan on watching and delete what I am done with. The only exception to this is if I feel the original content will be hard to locate again, I will then archive those files. All of this is just kept digitally on my hard drive and streamed throughout the house. I have allocated 3 TB for archive 1 TB for movies and 1.5TB for TV media. If I fall behind that I know I am downloading more than I am going to ever reasonably watch and will start purging data. I also do a lot of web streaming via Crunchyroll for my nerd shows in 1080p, however this is a relatively small portion of the data downloaded. |
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damn bro get yourself two 3TB internal drives or external and throw all those damn discs away. Back in the day I download whole dvd's as I did not download much and did not care about getting HD stuff and that's how anime was uploaded to usenet as the whole ISO then turned them to dvd. I also did not have a media PC back then and played the stuff in a dvd player. Now I know WTF I'm doing and download HD stuff and use a HTPC. I do download a whole BRrip sometimes but that is rare but again just play those as an ISO. This thread maybe of use to you. maybe we should make a media player thread on this forum as you need something to play all this stuff we talk about downloading. » A good media player to replace boxee box |
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said by jlo14566:I'm curious what everyone is doing with all these files. Right now I burn mine to disk. Over the years I have burned over 10,000 4.7g DVDs all cataloged on excel sheets. Lately I'm tiring of the work and thinking maybe large external storage drives may be easier. What's cheaper tho?
I used to burn it all to DVD also, but I just have way too much stuff. I have been considering a blu-ray burner though. Right now I use several external Thermaltake BlacX docks and 2TB hard drives. I've got about 6 so far. I stay with 2TB because the docks I have only work with drives up to that size. So it's good enough for now, even if it isn't the most convenient way to archive. |
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I invested in a WHS v1 system a few years ago where 90% of my local media is stored (music, pictures, and videos). Between that and Plex Media Server installed on a computer that transcodes well (only when necessary however), every box (including PS3, Rokus, iOS devices) has access to all that content, at home and remotely. |
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said by jlo14566:I'm curious what everyone is doing with all these files. Right now I burn mine to disk. Over the years I have burned over 10,000 4.7g DVDs all cataloged on excel sheets. Burning sucks.. I burned maybe 1000-2000 cd's/dvd's myself.. the irony is that was mainly in 2004-2008 or something.. I think it's kind of stupid to burn movies cause.. You download the divx version.. (a burn to cd-r) and then you get the DVD version ( another burn) and finally you have to get the 720/1080p version.. (another) ahh.. I give up  lol I have about 10-13 tb of storage right now.. it seems "good enough"  |
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I'm curious what everyone is doing with all these files. Right now I burn mine to disk. Over the years I have burned over 10,000 4.7g DVDs all cataloged on excel sheets. Lately I'm tiring of the work and thinking maybe large external storage drives may be easier. What's cheaper tho? |
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 gjrhine
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A better question is why? |
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