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Finished Ripping Movies

Yesterday I finally finished ripping all of the DVDs I own to date. I didn't rip discs with only special features on them and I skipped a few that I didn't think we'd be watching again.

All told, I have 770 VIDEO_TS folders taking up 4.91TB of space on my Windows Home Server. That's about 6.7GB per disc image.

If you want to know more about my Media Center solution - what I was trying to accomplish, why I chose VIDEO_TS instead of MPEG or some other compressed format, etc. - check out the overview of my Media Center solution.

posted on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:30 AM | Filed Under [ Media ]

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by Sadge at 5/6/2009 10:24 AM
Ok I'm jealous. I'm only maybe < 10% burning my movies. I'm going slow, though because especially with folder duplication it's eating up a lot of space (Currently I have 8.19 TB of storage space and about 1.5 TB free).

BTW (and I'm sure you've thought of this ... maybe) -- I have a Slingbox hooked up to my media player so I can access my DVD collection wherever I have internet access. Slingbox + Media Player = win. =)
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by Travis Illig at 5/6/2009 10:34 AM
I turned off folder duplication on my DVD collection. I figured I have the original source discs so if I lose something, I can always re-rip it. As a "backup measure" (if you could call it that) I take a full directory listing of the DVD folder so if I do lose something, I'll be able to tell which files are missing.

I only have about 6.5TB of space with about 600GB dedicated to music, pictures, backups, etc. (where folder duplication IS turned on).

The WD Green drives at NewEgg are 1TB/$100 with free shipping - I loaded up on those and they seem to work well (in case you need more space).
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by Sadge at 5/7/2009 2:29 PM
I thought about not using folder duplication until I lost everything I had (at the time around 2 TBs) around the time Microsoft released Power Pack 1. I decided to give the duplication a try then.

Just creating a list of things of the DVD folder might work though. I do have the discs and could always reburn them. I'll think about that. Thanks for the tip.
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