Is storage big enough/safe for the rips?

[elephantburger]

I can only keep 100 movies on a 3 TB drive (almost $200 cost). and it could break at any time, seeing as hard drives are unreliable. what do you do about this? why is technology moving so slowly?

[twa000]

I can only keep 100 movies on a 3 TB drive (almost $200 cost). and it could break at any time, seeing as hard drives are unreliable. what do you do about this? why is technology moving so slowly?

Afraid as always, buy a 2nd disk and backup or a NAS box with more capacity.

In reality disk technology has moved pretty fast over the last 30 years, and regardless of peoples views, disk technology is a pretty complex thing to produce - platters, disk media, heads, anyone can make a PC in their garage, a disk is a little more complex!!

[ryanjk333]

I can only keep 100 movies on a 3 TB drive (almost $200 cost). and it could break at any time, seeing as hard drives are unreliable. what do you do about this? why is technology moving so slowly?

I always worry about the safety of my rips. That's why I store them on RAID 1 configured drives, so if one drive dies, nothing should be lost. Each "enclosure" contains two identical drives and your data can either be spread over both drives (fast and large capacity, but not very safe because everything is probably gone if one of the two drives dies) or you can have two identical copies of your data saved in real time, one to each drive so it's always safe (RAID 1). Check out the various sizes available of these ones on Amazon. They've worked great for me. But remember, configured in RAID 1, you'll only get half the amount of storage that they are advertised as having.

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http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-My-Book-Studio/dp/B004PNXR44/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317675119&sr=8-1

As for the cost, yes it's high...it is in part due to floods damaging Western Digital and other plants. See here:

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/us-thai-floods-drives-idUSTRE79R66220111028

It's anyone's guess as to when prices will drop back to "normal". But when they do, that's what I would suggest to keep your rips safe. Not sure if these new "solid state drives" are any more reliable. They are super fast, but much too expensive and most are much too small to be useful to the people making rips with MakeMKV. I guess we'll just need to wait and see what is to come...