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John_Doe
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:02 am Post subject: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:03 am Posts: 5034 Location: Norway - Where the polar bears roam the streets
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Im tired of burning all my movies out on dvds. too much hassle. and since the prices of HD's have gotten so low now, I thought it's about the time to make the swap, storing my stuff on external HDs instead. The only con I see in this, is the frailty of storing so many films in one place... ie: if a dvd is scratched or broken, I loose a handful of movies. if a HD falls to the floor, I stand the risk of loosing around one thousdand movies...
Ive also gathered that I should get an external HD that doesn't require external power...
other comments and thoughts?
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pure
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Devil, Probably Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:58 pm Posts: 1940 Location: Just Follow The Stench
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IMO its better to have a couple of smaller good hdds (external or internal) then one big one
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RedVeil
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Devil, Probably Joined: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:40 pm Posts: 2250 Location: Inside my body.
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elguaxo
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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Master Of The Dead Donkey Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:01 pm Posts: 708
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RedVeil wrote: | Most stand alones don't support playback from external HDs as far as I know. |
If you have a big collection of rips and are thinking about changing to HD storage, then I'm sure you don't have a shitty standalone! If you want to reduce the danger of data loss -> RAID. An old but reliable PC + many HDs + something like FreeNAS is great.
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^Rogue^
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:07 pm Posts: 4951 Location: Always one step behind
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I've switched to Hd storage and I'm very happy with it. Used to burn DVDs for hours.
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fuEgo
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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Blood Sucking Freak Joined: Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:30 am Posts: 187
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RedVeil wrote: | How long do external HDs last? Most stand alones don't support playback from external HDs as far as I know. |
Check Popcorn Hour.
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MCMLXXXVIII
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:40 pm Posts: 2523 Location: In a dark room...
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pure
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Devil, Probably Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:58 pm Posts: 1940 Location: Just Follow The Stench
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RedVeil wrote: | How long do external HDs last? Most stand alones don't support playback from external HDs as far as I know. |
Got mine for like four years now (mainly for backingup movies, project files etc.), its a toshiba and I never had any problems yet. About lifetime, i've read somewhere that it can be anything from half a second to 10/15 years
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elguaxo
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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Master Of The Dead Donkey Joined: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:01 pm Posts: 708
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RedVeil wrote: | How long do external HDs last? |
http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdfsome interesting finds: -failure rates are indeed definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age -failure rates did not correspond to drive usage except in very young and old drives (i.e. heavy data "grinding" is not a significant factor in failure) -there is less correlation between drive temperature and failure rates than might have been expected, and drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot
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Slayer
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7863
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I have three external HDDs now. They all have external power and it doesn't give me problems at all. Since the newest one is 750GB, I stopped burning DVDs. Actually, I copied all files from old DVDs back to this HDD and I have all my movierips in one place now. The risk of losing it is very low, imo. The HDD will last much longer than the DVDs ever will. Even without failing the DVDs will expire in a few years, if the HDD never fails it will live longer than me. I only burn rips to DVDr for temporary reasons, but not for backup anymore. My internal HDDs are the backup now If the external HDD wil crash, I'll still have the internal ones.
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John_Doe
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:03 am Posts: 5034 Location: Norway - Where the polar bears roam the streets
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yeah, HDs got alot of good things going for them.. only problem for me is that 750gb is nowhere near enough. 10 times that, and we're talking... They're still a bit too expensive for me to buy ten 1gb hds though..
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^Rogue^
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:07 pm Posts: 4951 Location: Always one step behind
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Interesting read, thanks.
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elchupacabra
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:31 am Posts: 3603
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John_Doe wrote: | yeah, HDs got alot of good things going for them.. only problem for me is that 750gb is nowhere near enough. 10 times that, and we're talking... They're still a bit too expensive for me to buy ten 1gb hds though.. |
Same here. I think that big HDDs are too expensive. I would prefer a 2,5" one without external power supply, because I hate to plug that in and fight with the cabling every time. Unfortunately they are even more expensive.
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^Rogue^
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:07 pm Posts: 4951 Location: Always one step behind
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elchupacabra wrote: | Same here. I think that big HDDs are too expensive. I would prefer a 2,5" one without external power supply, because I hate to plug that in and fight with the cabling every time. Unfortunately they are even more expensive. |
Not true, the bigger 3,5" HDDs have the best price/capacity ratio.
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elchupacabra
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:31 am Posts: 3603
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Could be, but I look more at the final price. And as I said I would prefer a 2,5" one.
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19754 Location: En España
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Slayer
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7863
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I didn't, I wasn't around yet back then
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elchupacabra
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:31 am Posts: 3603
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Everybody is going to switch to HDDs after he/she lost his/her favorite movie, because the DVD got borked.
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19754 Location: En España
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What everyone wants is SSDs to become cheap
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Truba
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: Changing over to HDs? |
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Lunatic Of Gods Creation Joined: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:40 pm Posts: 1001 Location: Bosnia
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i believed in CD till the and an i will believe in DVD until the end I have 3 HDs one of them is external 250 GB two others are 160 and 220 Gb and they are something like 60% of storage space... simply nothing can change the 600+ DVD boxes in the wardrobe for me... movies on the HDD are like files to me feel nothing for them .... in the boy with the names...it is a different story i will put some series on the HDDs
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