hesaigo999ca's Journal: movie avi consolidation

I have a huge library of movies at home, as many people do, and I was thinking, once I have watched them it may be rare I actually go and watch them again, unless someone comes over and wants to watch it.

I decided to translate my movie collection into .avi to them place on backup hard drive. Doing so will take a long time, for converting a dvd to avi has a few steps. There are some softwares that can be bought such as the Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum or the free AutoGK which both do the same thing.

By so doing this, I can place my large collcetion into a small enough size hard drive (500gb) and keep an extra as backup (2*500gb). This means should anything happen to my first hard drive, then I have the second, enough time to go out and buy a replacement.

This leads me into the quality of the hard drives. I have heard horror stories of people buying the 500gb then having the disk fail and loosing all that data. In todays day and age, where every company speaks about having back ups and raid etc... it is almost impossible not to know that you need a good back up system for you files. Mine is just doubling the data and 2 drives instead of one, and keeping the extra hidden in a safety deposit box.

This strategy allows me to focus more on having fun, then worrying about the info being stolen or lost or even damaged.

A 500gb right now from tigerdirect.ca is about 110$ Canadian, which to me makes scense if I want to keep my data safe!