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Quoting mediadogg:

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I'm just sayin' ...

You should double your cost estimates, because you have to have backups.  If you can't/don't want to do backups you should just watch discs/streams and forget the ripping/downloading.

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Yep, you have to factor in cost for backups and ideally you'd want redundancy if a HDD fails, this way you can rebuild the RAID without having to use backups and then recreate a spare set of backups.  There's also the hardware cost.

Quoting mediadogg:

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@rdodolak

I have no doubt that I could have made mistakes. After downloading the profiles, I just set filters for DVD Only, etc. and then copied down the number of profiles in the filtered collection.

I had considered asking you for the totals, but I didn't think it was fair for me to burden you.

The BD and UHD items by far cost the most storage, so if I use your numbers (and incorrectly count 1 disc per release), I get:

3000 x 50 GB = 150TB
300 x 100GB  =  30TB
1200 x 8 = 10TB

Whole bunch of TB!!!! 

I have to say though, I am still amazed at how much people spend on physical storage and fancy display cabinets.

My 4 Sony changers cost almost $3000 to store 1600 discs. They produce stunning images, but big and obsolete and now can't give them away.

I've built up my collection over 24 years so the incremental cost over time has been much easier to bite off.  HDD sizes are starting to improve, but it's taken a long time to see capacity increases.  Once we get to 100+TB drives it will be much less costly, shoot I'd even settle for a 1 PB drive. 

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Quoting mediadogg:

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3000 x 50 GB = 150TB
300 x 100GB  =  30TB
1200 x 8 = 10TB

Well, I can tell you that I have 990 dvds and 113 blurays. They are all ripped to .mkv - only the main features, not all the extras (occasionaly I have included the blooper-reel from thing like The Big Bang Theory.)

Together with the scanned covers (around 10-15 MB each), it totals 9.7 TB.

Where do you get the time to do that??? I guess little by little as you acquire the discs. How long does each rip tale?

mein Versuch, einen neuen Film von Netflix in die Datenbank einzugeben, wurde abgelehnt.
Wenn man weiterhin an den überholten Regeln festhält, ist das hier sehr bald das Ende vom DVDProfiler

makemkv?
https://www.makemkv.com/

ist das freeware oder muß man es kaufen?

und
https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18856

kann auch kopiergeschützte DVDs auslesen?

Wieviel Speicher benötigt dann eine DVD? Ich denke mal 4,4 bis 8 GB.

Es gibt aber inzwischen wesentlich platzsparendere Formate. Format "microHD" speichert in fullHD und benötigt ca 1,5-2 GB ... Um seine Sammlung zu archivieren und Filme von NAS im LAN zu streamen wäre das doch sicher die bessere Wahl.

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@mediadogg, what servers are you using, are you bringing over the entire disc (ISOs?), and what are you using to stream your the content?

I have only a small fraction of my collection on hard drive. I gave up when Blu-Ray came along. It just took too much time to rip. And in the early days, hard drives were far more expensive, and to compensate I tried to use RAID arrays, which was an absolute nightmare. I could not afford the expensive enterprise drives and quality controllers. I spent most of my life rebuilding corrupt arrays after a thunderstorm.

So my strategy now is to use 1 main server, Windows 2012 Essentials where I have about 60TB spinning. Most of my media consists of TV programs and torrent downloaded international pop music videos and TV programs (JPop, Kpop, CPop, etc.). I organize by year, and make backups onto cheap USB drives as the main server drives get low.

I also have a backup server, Windows 2011 Essentials, that has more drive space, but I don't keep them spinning. Power it on every now and then.

Both servers have the ability to automatically make incremental backups of Windows machines. So all my laptops and desktops are backed up nightly. They also keep massively large Windows File History folders that contain shadow copies of files (prior versions).

Current year media downloads onto my torrent machine, which syncs daily with the main server, which has all prior years and family photos, PC backups, etc.

So, I usually have at least two copies of everything I care about, and up to three or more copies, some of which have been moved offline to sit in a cabinet.

Most of my physical discs are in 4 400 disc Sony changers, 2 DVD (CX995V) and 2 BD (CX7000ES). So I play media from them, and also use VLC Player and Cyberlink PowerDVD for hard drive media.

My Plugin LoadDVD allows me to launch media from any of those sources directly from DVD Profiler, and it includes support for all Sony multi-disc changers using infrared and TCP/IP commands.

Finally, my goto 4K player is the mighty Xbox 1. When I want to blow the roof off visually and audibly. Atmos, 4K, UHD, the whole ball of wax. 13 speakers including 4 subwoofers and 4 Atmos bouncers.

So, there you go! That's me!

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sorry for typing in German. English is not a problem at all
I noticed that Chrome shows me all the posts in my language, even the ones I previously wrote in English, so I thought it was a general option on this website.

I have 2 Synology Diskstations with a total of 30TB of storage, so no Windows PC has to be running 7/24.

Where can I find your plugin "LoadDVD" and what to say about "makemkv" see below?

LoadDVD and most other plugins are discussed in the plugins forum. Details on how to get them, how to use them, bug and fixes, etc are all topics. I will leave to someone else to discuss makemkv.

It's a global forum. Love it!!!