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saint:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 04, 2009, 09:33:48 am ---Yeah . . . there's not a lot of porn on it. It's mostly movies and TV shows. The movies are ripped and encoded to Xvid files, so they take up about 1.5 GB apiece. I just have A LOT of them. It's really a shame, though, as I haven't seen at least 30% of them yet :( My wife watches them while I study. It was a very big collection. In addition to the movies I had every episode of a whole slew of TV shows, many of them ones I wanted to see.
Oh well. Easy come, easy go. Though, temporally speaking they went much easier than they came. That collection was many years in the making :)
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Yeah, I'm in the same boat potentially. Lots of tv shows I want to catch up on (like I'm a full season behind on both Dr. Who and BSG), movies I've PVR'ed for future watching, etc... I'll cry if I lose them. How do you backup 3.5 TB of stuff?
Answer: I'm putting a couple of drives in the machine in the basement as a secondary storage. But I'm waiting for the 2TB drives to come to market at a reasonable price before I buy...
shmokes:
Well . . . I'm temporarily heartened. It looks like a dead drive. Theoretically that just means replacing a single drive and rebuilding the array. I checked and I don't know why I thought the thing used IDE drives. It's SATA. So I may be out of the woods for a mere $60 or so. Here's hoping.
Also . . . I don't know what you're talking about Arder. I had hundreds of media files that I was VERY happy with. The only coveting that went on is when other people came to my house and got a look at Xbox Media Center and all the media center it had access to. :P
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: saint on February 04, 2009, 12:55:24 pm ---Yeah, I'm in the same boat potentially. Lots of tv shows I want to catch up on (like I'm a full season behind on both Dr. Who and BSG), movies I've PVR'ed for future watching, etc... I'll cry if I lose them. How do you backup 3.5 TB of stuff?
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Behind a full season of BSG? Damn, that's not good. Get through the fluff from last year and get into this season. It's finally get back to being good and is culminating soon.
gnateye:
let me just chime in and say:
xbox media center rules! i use the same type of setup (not a raid tho) in my house with 2 xboxes on different floor runnin xbmc.
awesome.
good luck with your raid
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 04, 2009, 02:49:51 pm ---I know I'm in the stone age compared to you guys, but I've been real pleased with a $25 DVD/Divx player and burning things to DVD-Rs. Even picked up some slim line double DVD cases that are still wide enough to read the spine, but only occupy half the space of a regular DVD case. Most hour long TV shows clock in around 300-400MB, so you're easily going to fit a season on 2 discs max.
Gives you something tangible you can cart around, loan out, skim easily on the shelf, and you don't bog down your network or pray your hard drive doesn't fail.
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Since you have the 360 now, have you considered networking it to stream media?
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