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Storing DVDs/CDs

What type of storage do you use?

Need to get my collection into some sort of order and Don't know whether to go for those book type binders or the metal rigid DJ type cases.

Just interested in other options other that plastic sleeves and spindles!

Cheers.

Binder , easy to find what you want and keeps the discs scratch free, only problem in my house is no-one ever puts anything they've watched back.

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When your in a hole put down the shovel.

Binders are a waste of time, i have a couple of 400 binders and they cant take the weight and the metal clips rip out and am in the middle of switching mine to the metal dj cases

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I was never caught!

Fuck CD, DVD etc.

Get ext. HDD's, Yes they are more expensive, or are they?

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Originally posted by HoldDaSalad
Fuck CD, DVD etc.

Get ext. HDD's, Yes they are more expensive, or are they?

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Originally posted by Avenue_1
Haven't you heard the expression "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?

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Originally posted by gezzer
Binder , easy to find what you want and keeps the discs scratch free, only problem in my house is no-one ever puts anything they've watched back.

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Originally posted by CARR73
Ripper, what type of box have you gone for? got any links for it?

I like the look of the DJ style boxes, but it seems like some are a bit crap in quailty or the way the discs are kept, if read the reviews.

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Originally posted by Avenue_1
Haven't you heard the expression "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?

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Originally posted by Ripper
I use the 1000 dj boxes myself yeh they arnt the kind of thing you want to walk around with long but i leave em in the bedroom under the bed and just slide em out when i want something, as i have em listed
Thing with binders is if you only got say 200 max in 1 case it isn't so bad but when you got a lot more then bundles of cases arnt so good and the dj boxes are more practical
DJ storage

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Originally posted by CARR73
Yep, will go for the box option I reckon. Good site that, much cheaper than I was expecting.

Cheers.

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Originally posted by baha
Agreed. Have lost 2 HD's to disc failures now. One with 160Gb's of music, much of it from an underground hh & reggae site, most of which I'll never get back again

Alos lost another with 300Gb's of DVD's/avi's, not so tragic as they were mostly replacable.

I burn everything off to disc and have wallets (320 discs) that I've never had any problems with.

My biggest problem is labelling (too lazy to write on them when I burn them

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Have used svp since the cd/dvd change over days had 2 problems in that time, both occasions were bad disks, and both ritek dye dvds when in a hurry they bundled em up in packs of 100 without letting the dye dry properly so sticky disks which ripped the dye off the dvd.
Both times was replaced and damaged picked up same time and both times i was given 100 free ritek disks for free

I have around 15 or so binders that shall be going in the bin as they are well ripped out of the covers

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I was never caught!

all digital storage solutions basically suck

cd/dvds the foil eventually rots away, the moving aspects of hard drives of course are prone to failure, i read a few articles even questioning the data retention capabilites of solid state disks. tape is slow and expensive by today's standards, needs to be kept in a climate controlled area. Our generation especially (20-somethings and modern teenagers) desperately need to come up with a long term, reliable storage solution with how much of our day to day lives is involved with digital media (photographs, home movies in particular).

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Originally posted by The CandyMan
Lightscribe are a little more cost-wise and it does add about 10-15 minutes more time to the whole burning process (lightscribe labeling) but think it's more than worth it.

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If you consider the amount of time and the furstration involved when dealing with cd's / dvd's, I think that using Hard Disks is the best solution ...

Just use a hard disk to download the stuff you need and then use back up disks to transfer the data and keep them offlne.

The only problem comes with music, where one should keep such data on cd's for fast access to different computers.

You can't often lend out a hard drive. With Candy's suggestion you can run a full lending library without getting in trouble

HDs with backups!

i have 4 externals.
2x1Tb entirely for archived xvids and a backup of my music collection on each drive.
1x500Gb for tvseries.
1x120Gb pocket drive that is only music (for serato/djing).

plus a 300Gb drive in my macbook that has a third backup of my music.

i used to burn like crazy, but i really don't have the time for it anymore. externals plus xbmc ftw. just turn on your hd and bam you have your own VOD service with anything you want.

this will hold a few http://www.meritline.com/1000-cd-dv...---p-22028.aspx

Something else I forgot to mention was once I'm done with enough discs (watched all the movies) I put them onto a empty spindle (the ones the new ones come on) and then type out a list of the number of each disc on the spindle and the place that on the inside of the cover facing out so you can read it without opening the spindle case. I then number the spindle case on top and then add the movies to a separate Excel list so if I want to go back later and watch a movie from awhile back over again I know exactly where it is. I've got some going back as far as 8 years!

Ain't I anal?

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Originally posted by The CandyMan
Ain't I anal?

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~4TBs of HDD space + h26enc

~30 mins later I put the DVD back in its case never to be touched again. I play everything off my popcorn hour now. fuck hard copy.

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Originally posted by baha
Possibly.

But you're an organisational (in-a-kinda-housewifey-way) genius.

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i used to use these, but with 1000 spaces,
all numbered and a word doc on the pc telling me whats where.

years later i realize ive never gone back for one disk lol

im a leech, watch and delete dude now days

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Quite a bit of my old stuff gets watched ,one of the kids hooked out one flew over the cuckoos nest night before last reckons one of the best films he ever seen (he ain't wrong), and he watches loads of films.Ain't put it back yet mind.

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i store all my dvds in file 13..if theres anything im gonna keep it stays on my hdd...one day ill figure out how to route my hdd to the tv and i wont need dvdrs anymore

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Good topic.

I use plastic wallets and Nero cover designer to print just a single sided cover, then put them in crates so you can just flip through like with 12inch records. Good as well for when someone wants to borrow a film.

Have been meaning to do the whole Excel catalogue thing with IMDb links and stuff. That will be a big task though!