Cosmo
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You can buy 1TB drives for £60 these days so not too bad tbh.
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Cosmo
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Willay bro 
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willay
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stop copying me bro
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
I'd stay with the collection/storage, media centre is good but
1) it needs to be HD output to take advantage of the BR discs
2) needs to have multiple disks for RAID backup or you may risk loosing it all in your first disk failure
3) it will take an age to rip that amount of DVDS/Bluerays to hard disk
4) you need to employ a method to rip said DVD/Bluerays where you keep the quality and dont use a shit ton of diskspace
5) diskspace
storage is cheap, for £50 quid you get roughly 40 Blurays (per 1tb) or 125 DVDs - and obviously use something like DVDShrink to cut down on the size per disc, although you do loose a little quality and it can take an age per convertion.
HD isn't an issue, most Atom boards have DVI/HDMI ports as well as optical/coax connections.
As for backups, in this case it wouldn't be cost effective as Jambo needs roughly 4tb of storage, approx £200 worth of drives, and backing that up would double it. And with the cost of the board etc you might as well just purchase the multidisc changer.
James - DVDShrink rips the DVD to ISO but allows you to keep the original dvd menu structure whilst lowering the quality of the video/audio (so shrinking the size of dvd).
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willay
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to be honest though the dvds will be his backup so no point in more hard drives when you think about it  - Though employing some sort of redundancy would be an idea, like RAID 5 or something.
[Edited on 27-07-2009 by willay]
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Cosmo
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tbh his DVDs would be the back up, so wouldnt need a load more HDDs (although would save him ripping them again should the worst happen).
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willay
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Cosmo bro, stop it
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Jambo
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this thread just go g33k l33t pwned tbh
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