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There is no way that works for everyone, my answer is: it depends. For example, for the DVDs that I care about the most, or that are rare or at risk of being out of catalog, or TV series, I make the ISO of the entire DVD. For the others, however, copying with MakeMKV is enough. For Blurays, however...

I store the extracted .mkv files. In my view, it is the content that is important not the disc structure. I also transcode for regular use. I find that saving the extracted .mkv files makes it easy to re-transcode as necessary. In my experience it is the creation of the extracted .mkv files (& ...

Do you have gobs of unused space that needs filling? Then doing ISOs is a good way to fill it. Not so much? Then preserving the original media is probably a better choice. I only have about 80TB of storage, so I don't store the ripped MKV files longer than it takes to encode them to storage, then p...

This is a general question as I'm relatively new to storing large amounts of digital media. Is it better to store backups of ripped DVDs as disc image files (.iso/.cdr) or to store the original extracted .mkv files produced by MakeMKV? I always make encoded x264/x265 copies for regular use and store...