DVD Storage Solution ?

[xobituaryx]

Hey All,
Been a while since I posted and had a quick question. How and what and in which way do you guys store/file your DVD's? I found that after 3000 + Discs even the slim jewel cases take up too much space. Just looking for suggestions or any other idea' on how I can store my DVD's. If it helps these are mainly back ups and do not necessarily need to be on a shelve or anything they can be in the basement stored. Thanks for the tips.

-L

[DarrellS]

Alot of people are starting to put their backups on hard drives and storing the originals away. You can get 1TB drives for around $100 these days and I believe I saw a 2TB drive somewhere the other day.

[redwudz]

Normally I would suggest compacting down the DVDs to a higher compression format like H.264. But with that many DVDs, it would take quite a bit of time.

Even DVD changers like the Sony 400 disc changers I use won't help much.

Some math: If your DVDs are original full size, figure about 7GB per disc. 7 X 3000 would give you about 21 TB. Not cheap, even with 1 TB drives. If they have been ran though Shrink, about half that, or 14TB, still very large, but possible with 14 one TB drives.

I would probably go with HDD storage if you want all the discs easily accessible. One of my video servers can use up to 15 SATA HDD drives in a full tower case. It's just a regular PC with lots of drive connections. I use two PCI SATA controllers for eight drives, plus the MB controllers. All drives are accesable over the LAN.