BD Question

Looking to copy my 300+ BD collection to an removable storage.
How and what is needed to do this?

Thx

 

I'm guessing an approximately 15TB storage solution?

 

Well, lets be conservative here (and you can forget about "removable").. 2TB SATA = ~$200. Let's assume 50% of the movies are dual layer.. so 25GB*150+50GB*150 = 11.25TB.. You'd probably want to run that in RAID 5, so we're talking another disk, so 7x 2TB drives = $1,400. You also need a PC with a decent power supply, a BD-ROM and the RAID controller.. Maybe $450 at the minimum. So, $1,850, and probably a week worth of time or more to get all the BD on the drives.. and then you don't have much space left for any other movies.

Have fun!

 

LOLOLOLOL! wow, i thought i was crazy for having 700gigs of movies/music/pictures.

GL on your backup solution/plan.

 

in the interest of performance, you can do what this fellow did and raid together 24 256gb samsung ssd drives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

 

I'm questioning if the actual space(physical) taken up by the machine needed to convert those BDs to the needed external storage would actually take that less space than the actually 300 BDs lol

 

I know And then, so you have them on the storage.. how do you play them? Media Player? You can't stream it to a blu-ray player, and unless you run a cable, the wireless bandwidth is going to kill you..

I'm curious to see why anyone would do this!

 

This does seem a little extreme, but the H/W is not my biggest concern.

Backing up those disks will be more than a little illegal, not to mention time consuming. Once done though, your main job/title is to ensure that the back up is backed up and that the h/w you're using is generally available - if not, make sure you buy identical spare parts for it and make sure to test them, before you'll need them.

I would just rather buy the 300 movies twice.

 

Well we're not here to question his motives I suppose.

Personally, I only buy a select few movies I've genuinely liked, those which are entertaining, or collections I like. Other than that, I usually just rent them for 1$ since I know that I rarely watch movies more than once unless they appear on a TV channel months/years later.

Anyhow, it'd be very time consuming if anything indeed to convert 300 BD's worth of movies(just thinking of inserting/ejecting 300 discs in my drive makes me twitch lol ), but it is possible if he sets up lots of HDDs.

I doubt it's a question of him wanting to back them up because honestly, if they died anywhere within the next 2-5 years he could simply buy new ones and they'd likely be cheaper unless some new revolutionary change happened and made Blu Rays obsolete. I think it's probably a question of mobility, but even then I don't see any case where I'd bring 300 BDs on an external storage rather than bring all 300 BDs themselves.

 

I agree.. I think this would be the much easier, and cheaper, alternative.

 

To clarify, I'm not suggesting the OP was trying for anything illegal, just that I remember reading a while back that not even a backup of a movie is legal...

Didn't mean to imply anything against the OP at all.

 

You'll need a ripper to get the BDs onto the hard drive. It's kind of expensive, but I'd suggest AnyDVD HD as it's the only one that can handle BD+ copyright protections at the moment.

You'll then a need an encoder. I use RipBot264. It's light weight and fairly easy to use. If you're looking to do it on your laptop, it's going to take a while. My quad core desktop does a 720p BD in about six hours and a 1080p in about 12 hours, give or take a bit depending on the movie. On a dual core notebook CPU, I'd say it'll take at least twice as long, though they look very good. The resulting files are four to six GB, again depending on the movie. For 300 movies at an average of say five GB, you'd probably need a 2TB drive.

 

You would need a 15 TB Hard drive plus PLENTY of time to rip them all. Use AnyDVD to make a perfect image and use Virtual Clone Drive (both from Slysoft) to mount the image.

Note that some movies may have more than 1 disc so you may need even more than 15 TB.

Good luck!

 

ZaZ and hendra,

Thanks for the additional info on BD DVD backups.

Just want to say that for me, a backup is a one to one copy of the original. In that sense, I wouldn't want to take a 50GB disk and make a 5GB copy. That copy for me is 'throwaway' and nowhere near the quality the original would be. This is what I based my 15TB storage solution on. YMMV though...

What I found particularly interesting is the times the copying takes! Wow, I'd rather work overtime a couple of hours a day (to buy a second copy of a movie) than have a computer dedicated to simply copying a BD DVD movie onto my HD. And, a 'bad' copy at that!

This is a six month project - if you sleep at all.

Really didn't know how long it would take, nor have guessed it would be anywhere up to close to 12 hrs. on the level of notebooks I'm used to currently.

Of course, having 300 movies at a 'good enough' quality like this would be awesome for vacations and such - especially when we'll be able to bring 2, 1TB drives and 'have it all'.

Cheers!

 

Keep it on the BD... cheaper and will save u a lot of time... anyways going a little off topic... i'm really amazed of that video of 24 SSDs in RAID everytime i see it.. imagine how it will be like to have 100 SSDs in RAID...