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About This Page: This is a discussion on Computers/Tech/Photo within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. I've never purchased one before and I'm wondering if this sounds like a good deal.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144069
I plan on storing back-ups of my entire DVD collection on this drive. How
Looks like a good deal to me. I imagine that the number of DVD rips you'd be able to store on this thing will vary with your compression ratios and stuff.
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Looks like a good deal to me. I imagine that the number of DVD rips you'd be able to store on this thing will vary with your compression ratios and stuff.
Are you going to be ripping the DVD's to a video file or backing up the DVD's? You can rip a DVD to a good quality XVID or DIVX video file at about 1.5 gigs per file. If you want a complete backup of the DVD they are going to take up more room. Most older DVD's are single layer and will take up around 4 gigs each. The newer ones take up around 8 gigs. You can do the math to figure out how big of a hard drive you need for your collection.
Are you going to be ripping the DVD's to a video file or backing up the DVD's? You can rip a DVD to a good quality XVID or DIVX video file at about 1.5 gigs per file. If you want a complete backup of the DVD they are going to take up more room. Most older DVD's are single layer and will take up around 4 gigs each. The newer ones take up around 8 gigs. You can do the math to figure out how big of a hard drive you need for your collection.
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Last edited by Kubrick; April 10th, 2007 at 04:46 PM.
My personal experience is that there quite a few reliable external hard drives well known or not. My Western Digital is fast and has been dropped more then once and works perfect while being quiet. I have larger off brand thats louder and a bit slower but has worked just as well for the past few years. I would just follow the reviews and you should be fine either way. Like mentioned above, if you compress the DVD's you will fit so many more on a hard drive. This coupled with the great software available to burn these files on DVD's or VCD's makes this a win win.
Don't forget a "500GB" drive will probably give you about 335GB worth of usable space.
It's not that you get less space than advertised. Its that they advertise its size in a different way than it should be reported (as in how windows and most things in the world report size).
HD manufacturers, for marketing, advertise a "GB" as 1 billion bytes, which is linguistically correct but technically wrong. A GB is really 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So HD boxes literally mean capacity is just about 500,000,000,000 bytes, but windows will tell you its proper size of 465GB.
My "400GB" drive is 400,077,549,568 bytes, windows gives me 372.61GB.
Another thing to notice is sometimes when you install a drive, it doesnt always (or just can't) partition the maximum size to one drive letter, and you have to create a Logical drive to cover the rest. My 372.61GB is divided into a 356.45 and a 16.16. So be sure to fire up the Disk Manager through the control panel and make sure you dont have a big chunk of unused space.
Anyway... luckily, in this case, DVD's are marketed in the same fashion. 4.7GB (DVD5) and 8.5GB(DVD9 - Double Layer) are similarly inflated.
So its easy math. Worst case: 58 movies and change, Best case: 106 movies.
HOLY ****!!!! That's a great price...and I'm still kicking myself for paying almost $300 for my 300GB drive... What's worse...I STILL have to buy another drive to store my Old Time Radio collection...which has taken up slightly over 100GB already...
It looks like a great price, but I stopped buying Maxtor a while back after I had 3 of their external drives fail. Two were the 5000DV model and the other was a One Touch II. We have about 20 external drives at our office of which 9 are Maxtor. The only ones to fail were the Maxtors. Not good odds--1 in 3 failed in 4 years. Things at Maxtor may have changed since Seagate bought them out, but I still won't trust them.
I have been buying the Western Digital MyBook Premium drives at Costco and have been happy with them. I think they were $169 for 500MB. They also have a Terrabyte model now.
The price is unbeatable... a steal! But I will let you know that Maxtor is a name that I no longer trust (especially IDE drives). My hard drive brands are Seagate and Western Digital.
BTW, when these drives fail due to a mechanical failure like mine did, it costs about $1800+ to have the data recovered.
Does anyone know if "Flash-based" external drives are viable for this kind of storage capacity? I mean in the 100's of GByte range, not the 1 GByte of a USB memory stick.
Those would alleviate the moving-motor-and-platter failure concerns.
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Does anyone know if "Flash-based" external drives are viable for this kind of storage capacity? I mean in the 100's of GByte range, not the 1 GByte of a USB memory stick.
Those would alleviate the moving-motor-and-platter failure concerns.
I know of a few places selling 25 and 50GB sticks...not sure of any 100's yet...
I found out that there are some flash drives that aren't Vista compatible... I won't use Vista on my computer as the OS SUCKS to a nuclear level...but there is another computer here that has it... As
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