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Flinkly:
ok, so i'm getting another hard drive to archive my dvd's on and was wondering what speed i need to get (connection) in order to play my dvd's at top speed, or does it matter?

i'm looking at getting a 300 GB disk and don't want to have to update it within the next 5-10 years, if anything, i'd like to buy more like it to increase my capacity.  i already have a raptor 74 GB hard drive which is sata, but should i get my other drives for sata?

my computer only has two sata connections at the moment, so how do i upgrade that?

sata would give me easier raid ability with intel, but i hear you can raid the regular connection too.  should i just get sata since it's the best connection out and hope it stays on the frontlines for a  while?

thanks for the help guys, i haven't kept up on computer stuff since i built my last computer...

boykster:
Either SATA or plain old PATA (ide) is fine for movies.  In fact, I play movies across my network, and 100base ethernet is a LOT slower than a hard drive, and I have no issues.


--- Quote from: Flinkly on November 05, 2006, 02:14:10 pm ---i'm looking at getting a 300 GB disk and don't want to have to update it within the next 5-10 years

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don't count on this....5-10 YEARS before you update your drive?  :laugh2:

Just buy a decent sized drive that you're comfortable with price-wise.  300gigs won't buy you a lot of movie space, depending on how you store them.  I store uncompressed (main movie only) dvd's on a couple of linux servers with RAID5 arrays -> about 5 Terabytes of storage and I currently have about 450 movies (and 120 or so tv episodes) with space for maybe 200 more movies....

 :dunno

shmokes:
Man, I wish I could afford a setup like that.  I've got a couple 400 GB drives striped in a RAID0 array.  They're nearly full and compress all my movies and tv shows into divx files.  I rip movies and send them back to Netflix, so I've got about 25 movies and loads of TV content I haven't seen yet.  I figure once I'm in law school and living solely on my wife's income we'll be super poor and it'll be nice to have all this content archived then.  But my fear is that one of my disks will fail and I'll end up losing tons of stuff I haven't even seen yet.

I'd love 5 terrabytes and I'd love some RAID5 action.

NiN^_^NiN:
Im sad to say i recently got a 250gb hdd after having a 60gb and 40gb and its full and i only got it 2 months ago :dunno

Im gonna be getting the biggest hdd i can find soon last time i checked 650gb was what i saw

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: boykster on November 05, 2006, 04:20:47 pm ---don't count on this....5-10 YEARS before you update your drive?  :laugh2:

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I still use a 4 gig drive that I bought in 1998 in one of my computers   :dunno

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