DVD storage ideas

Ever think of storing them digitally? You would need a few TB but it may be worth looking into.

I did the following. 500 DVD and blu-ray discs

Purchased a copy of movie software from movie collector.com

One of theses: http://www.meritline.com/1000-cd-dvd-storage-wallet-case---p-22028.aspx

I then took all the discs out of there holders (stored those in a box that went into the garage) cataloged them. If you want you can also purchase the software for your iPhone or iPad. Then you don't have to print them. I never do anyway.

I would also look into storing them digitally and serving them to a head unit ie apple tv, sling box,boxee or something along those lines.

Hope this helps.

I store all my DVD's as straight ISO rips on my unRAID server. Once the DVD's are on the server I store the disc's in a box in my garage.

You can check out the unRAID forums and get quite a bit of information from the unRAID Wiki.

prostuff1 said:

I store all my DVD's as straight ISO rips on my unRAID server. Once the DVD's are on the server I store the disc's in a box in my garage.

You can check out the unRAID forums and get quite a bit of information from the unRAID Wiki.

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This is the setup I have been eyeing for a very long time. Ever since I heard about them on avscience.com. How much space do you have?

rhett7660 said:

This is the setup I have been eyeing for a very long time.

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I looked at different setups for a very long time. From prebuilt systems like synology and drobo; to an OS like Ubuntu server and FreeNas, etc; to high priced RAID cards in a Windows/Linux system; to Linux software RAID. I ended up choosing unRAID for a number of reasons. It is on a high level a Linux OS with a Linux software RAID (<- that is a description on a very high level, there is a little more to it then that short sentence says).

Ever since I heard about them on avscience.com. How much space do you have?

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Right now the server has about 8TB in a tower style case. I recently picked up a rackmount style case and will be transplanting all the current parts into the new case in the next couple months.

One of the best parts of unRAID is its ability to add more drives very easily. I have some old 500GB drives in use in my array, and I have some new 2TB drives in use also. I have a 160GB drive in use as a "cache" drive and app install location.