That's not much if you are only making a few backups of backups. But a lot of people have 2000 or more movies and that can add up to $1,500 to $2,000 extra if you are making 2 or more copies of each backup in your collection. Not to mention the hundreds of extra hours it takes to do this and the extra expense of the binders that you will need for storing these extra backups ($150 or more). I don't see a problem with spending an extra 3 or 4 dollars for some discs that may become unuseable and spending maybe 5 hours compared to 500 hours backing these few up again. It only takes me between 45 min. to an hour to rip, edit, transcode and burn a movie (start to finish) to produce a great looking final product. I just try to keep the cost down because it is not very cheap purchasing all of these movies either new or used. It adds up quickly!
^^I only have a few, but it took me forever just to do one! Also, I've installed the latest versions of DVD-RB, Avisynth 258 and HC Encoder 023 to my laptop (P4, 2.8Gig MHZ) and the whole process was much faster, more like 50%. So instead of 8-9 hours, it is now down to about 3.5-4.5 hours for a 6GB-6.5GB file! The only downside to it was that my laptop didn't have a DVD burner so I'd have to transfer them to a USB each time, then to my slow-hog PC for burning - that's where the time was wasted most.
Have you ever thought about getting either an external dvd burner or an internal dvd burner and a 3.5" external drive case and plug into your usb port on your laptop so you don't have to keep transferring these files to your PC to burn.
Yes I have looked on ebay many times for an internal laptop burner (-/+RW/DL) but the price is way too steep. I don't want an extenal burner because they are not as stable. I am averaging 3hr45min per movie using the latest DVD-RB/HC Encoder to PREPARE/ENCODE/REBUILD, it beats the hell out of 8-10 hours not too long ago, so transferring files from my laptop to PC via USB drive ain't so bad after all.
Not stable eh ?, sure they are ~ i've been using external burners for about 4 years now, i select my own standard burners and putting them inside Belkin enclosures. I've never purchased ready-made external burners (or external hard drives) so can't vouch for their reliability, but currently have 6 external optical drives on this PC and they are totally stable, plus they coexist perfectly with the 3 internal optical drives. that runtime isn't too painful, 8-10 hours would have been a bit more long-winded. You should see how long some people are taking to do BluRay ie using BD Rebuilder Beta, 25 odd hours etc !
Nowt wrong with your system.. it's more than realistic to do dvd work on a lump of hardware like that (athlon 1900+ with 512 but running a proper OS here) .. forget all these penis substitute quad core with gigs of ram pimps.. I used to run a p3 600 and completely transcoding, authoring and burning a dvd took me about 5 hours with debian and only 256 ram... and I could still do other stuff at the same time.
This Quad Core pimp agrees completely, but as the pc's sleep as little as i do, i like them to get as much done as they can, i like to slavedrive my pc's
I agree with Creaky. I have 3 internal hard drives that I installed in 3.5" drive enclosures and an internal dvd recorder installed in a 3.5" external drive enclosure and never have a problem with any of them. I prefer this because I can use any of these drives via USB with either my PC or my laptop, very convenient and reliable. I have never used Rebuilder before, just run them through DvdFab HD Decrypter or Ripit, VobBlanker, Shrink (if necessary) and burn! Only takes about 45 min. total and come out with a very nice product. I can't imagine spending several hours backing up each movie!
