Too much video, not enough time and space

[NVOGEL]

I'm getting ready to start a new job and I have about 100 gigs of video on a computer at my current office. I have a DVD burner on that PC, but my computer and DVD player at home do not support DVD-R. I have a laptop at my disposal with a 50gig hard drive. I'd compress the video further, before transfer, but I really don't want to lose more quality than I already have.

Is there a way to use the laptop to transfer the video from work to home that would help me avoid hours of burning CD after CD? USB?, other connection?--networking (FTP) is not an option.

Please help, I don't want to lose portfolio material!

[Craig Tucker]

I would say the quickest and easiest way to do it (although will cost you a few quid) would be to get yourself a 100 gig hard drive. Connect it to a spare ide connector on your PC at work, (if there is none spare you can always temporarily unplug a CD drive) and copy the files across to the new hard drive. Remove the drive and install it in your PC at home. You now also have an extra 100gigs of storage on your home PC. Very handy you can never have too much space.

[rallynavvie]

Get a 120GB IDE hard drive from someplace for as cheap as you want to go (though the 8MB buffer ones are worth the price) and then buy a FireWire or USB enclosure. It's FAR cheaper to make your own external hard drive than buy one prebuilt. Having a FireWire or USB2.0 hard drive is really handy. It can be used for backing up, transporting large files (as in your case), and even segregating certain files from your system (like keeping your DC shares somewhere else).