We have 30,000 DVDs in storage, safe to move them to garage?

[RB4580]

We're about to move in our new house and I would rather save the $240.00 per month on storage and move inventory to our garage.

Right now our storage has AC. In South Carolina it gets hot, do you think it's safe to store DVDs in a hot garage?

NOTE: These DVDs are professionally pressed and shrinkwrapped from a manufacturer and are in cardboard boxes of 100.

[lordsmurf]

No. Absolutely not.

[rhegedus]

Sell them....

If they're movies, let's assume an average viewing time of 90 mins.

x30,000 = 45,000 hours

That's about six years of watching DVDs 27/7.

Either you haven't already or aren't going to.

[RB4580]

lordsmurf, is that your opinion or is it proven it's not good on the DVDs?

rhegedus, we film and sell our DVDs from our website. This is our inventory. I couldn't IMAGINE watching that many movies! LOL

[InXess]

Do you really want to be the first one with 30.000 pieces of evidence that heat may affect media?
Garages may become very hot... question is how hot is too hot.

[RB4580]

LOL good point. I wouldn't do it with all 30,000. I could always test a box of 100.

Wouldn't be a huge loss as we only pay .95 per DVD.

[lordsmurf]

lordsmurf, is that your opinion or is it proven it's not good on the DVDs?
rhegedus, we film and sell our DVDs from our website. This is our inventory. I couldn't IMAGINE watching that many movies! LOL

Proven.

Humidity, moisture, and heat are going to kill your discs.

A garage, even a brand new house, is going to have moisture coming up from the ground, humidifying the air (especially hot air), and then the additional heat will do damage as well.

You are basically creating an artificial harsh tropical environment. That environment is known to kill media. Maybe not right away, but it will rob years and years off the discs. You may lose inventory AND do customers a great disservice.

Cardboard boxes are the worst way to store anything, by the way. Roaches thrive on the glue and nest babies there. Silverfish eat the cardboard and best there. And then you have other insects like spiders set up shop and liquify their food, splattering bug guts across your box contents. This will happen in a garage, and I do not care how bug-free you think it is.

[rhegedus]

rhegedus, we film and sell our DVDs from our website. This is our inventory. I couldn't IMAGINE watching that many movies! LOL

If it's your business then I'd keep them AC.

$240 pcm for 30,000 discs is less than a cent per disc pcm.

[jman98]

lordsmurf, is that your opinion or is it proven it's not good on the DVDs?
rhegedus, we film and sell our DVDs from our website. This is our inventory. I couldn't IMAGINE watching that many movies! LOL

Proven.

Humidity, moisture, and heat are going to kill your discs.

I have no idea if RB4580 knows this as he doesn't say where he lives now, but he'll face all 3 of those things in South Carolina. If he doesn't mind huge losses and large amounts of returns from angry customers, then he can store the discs in his garage.

[RB4580]

Wow, thanks for all the detailed replies. I'm going to stick with the AC. Just talked to my manufacturer and he also said AC is best.

Thanks again.

[InXess]

Cardboard boxes are the worst way to store anything, by the way. Roaches thrive on the glue and nest babies there. Silverfish eat the cardboard and best there. And then you have other insects like spiders set up shop and liquify their food, splattering bug guts across your box contents. This will happen in a garage, and I do not care how bug-free you think it is.

Holy shit! This could be a horrific scene. If well scripted may even blow Steven King away. Good research LS.

RB4580, you don't want your discs liquefied, do you?

[alegator]

What about transferring all those DVD's to flash memory cards?

[lordsmurf]

Cardboard boxes are the worst way to store anything, by the way. Roaches thrive on the glue and nest babies there. Silverfish eat the cardboard and best there. And then you have other insects like spiders set up shop and liquify their food, splattering bug guts across your box contents. This will happen in a garage, and I do not care how bug-free you think it is.

Holy shit! This could be a horrific scene. If well scripted may even blow Steven King away. Good research LS.

RB4580, you don't want your discs liquefied, do you?

This is one reason you need to be careful when moving. Cardboard boxes are a bad idea, you can migrate tons of roaches to your new house! The only exception is if you unpack quickly and dispose of the boxes. It usually takes a little while for them to leave their meal habitats.

And then this is one reason (of several) that grocery stores phased from paper to plastic. The storage room was literally a nest for baby cockroaches, and you got free roach hatchlings with each bag of groceries.

This is not myth, this is well-research fact, and something I have witnessed many times in the past. I almost wanted to vomit a few times, when I saw roaches piece and roach guts, spider meal leftovers, inside of stored boxes.