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shmokes:
Well the drives are SATA, so no slave and I'm almost positive that there's no DMA on SATA drive either (or rather they basically act like DMA devices to begin with).  They're also striped together in a RAID 0 so performance should be pretty good.  I don't image the discs first.  Is the performance difference that much better that it offsets the extra time imaging the disc the hard drive first?  I gotta say, one downside to that is I've gotta babysit the thing while I'm imaging it so that I can start ripping and encoding once it's done imaging.  I can't just pop in a disc, hit go and leave.

As far as storage . . . I don't know.  I've got about 1.5 TB of storage in a consumer RAID 5 NAS box and 1 TB of it is already filled up, and that is with exclusively compressed formats.  If I was just ripping I would have far exceeded my capacity.  And I love this thing because it acts as its own Samba server, so I don't have to leave my computer on all the time wasting power in order to always have access to my media, so I'm not especially excited about outgrowing the thing any time soon. 

And, frankly, even if storage is cheap right now,  my wife is our only breadwinner for the foreseeable future and we're living in an incredibly expensive city. I am an unemployed law student taking $40,000 in student loans EVERY YEAR!  Getting a job is out of the question.  Not only would it simply be impossible -- I'm up all night most nights reading cases as it is -- but it is not allowed by the school.  It's considered a violation of the honor code and you can be expelled for it.  I've got a really powerful, fun poor-man's setup going on from all the equipment I've amassed over the past five years, but I'm where I am for the next few years.  Spending money to upgrade my home theater in any way right now would just be irresponsible.

boykster:
You shouldn't even be watching movies then, now should you  ;)


--- Quote from: jbox on September 06, 2007, 02:06:55 am ---That's not overly practical yet for your average home network. Streaming a DivX file involves sending less then a quarter of the traffic for around 90% of the quality (for normal don't-see-every----smurfing----pore TVs). So no-one else can do pretty much anything else while you're watching the movie.  :dunno

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That's simply ridiculous.  I can concurrently stream uncompressed DVDs from a single linux server to as many as 5 clients and still use the network for general usage, and that's on 10/100 gear.  I just upgraded to gigabit to every port not to increase concurrent capacity, but to increase ripping / transfer speed, pure and simple.  What are you using for a network?  Tin cans and yarn?

I guess I'd rather spend more time enjoying my digital media that funking around with it trying to get it to work and look good.

Edit: oh, and sure, compressed video might look just fine on your SD set today, but do you really want to invest all this time and effort into ripping your digital media, only to have to do it again when you upgrade to an HD set?  And I do mean WHEN, as SD sets won't be available forever and your existing gear will eventually fail. 

 :dunno

Havok:
I don't see the problem? You've got a bunch of movies for Kung Fu theater now!

 ;D

clanggedin:
I use DVD Shrink (free) and I have never had audio sync problems on any of my ripped DVDs.

ahofle:

--- Quote from: clanggedin on September 06, 2007, 05:41:54 pm ---I use DVD Shrink (free) and I have never had audio sync problems on any of my ripped DVDs.

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Ditto.

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