[mythtv-users] Slightly OT - How many People have Video libraries over 8TB?

[jedi]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:23:02AM -0700, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Alexander Fisher <alex at alexfisher.me.uk> wrote:
> > On 6 July 2012 17:19, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> and where (roughly) are you located.
> >>
> >> I've got 13TB and am in Kent, UK.
> >
> > Have you got that backed up to another 13TB stored on a different machine?
> > It'd be a shame if you lost it.  It must have taken you *ages* to build. [1]
> >
> > I've currently got 96 DVD feature films ripped (no recompression) to
> > mkv and the median filesize (quickest type of average for me to work
> > out) is 4.5GB.
> > 13GB would equate to around 3000 films!  I've got 4x2TB disks, but
> > only 4TB is usable.  It's currently configured as a 3 disk RAID5 with
> > a hot spare, but I hope to get a 5th drive soon so that I can setup a
> > proper backup with the hot spare being re-purposed as a disk in the
> > backup machine.  Only then will I feel comfortable spending the hours
> > required to rip all my remaining DVD collection.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Alex
> >
> > [1] - Rereading that, it sounds like a mafia style threat.  I'm not
> > really planning on stealing your system. :)
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> There should be a distinction made between recordings storage and
> videos storage. I've only got 1.5TB for recordings, but a 5TB NAS for
> other stuff (videos, music, pictures, backups). Either way, 13TB is a
> lot of storage, but it's not necessarily 3000 DVD's. HD recordings
> take between 4-8GB per hour and my Bluray rips are about 30GB each.

    My ~ 1900 DVDs sit on 6TB of used storage.

    Some are compressed. Some aren't. There are a few BDs in there too.

    Much more of the TV stuff is compressed than cinema.

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