Media, Movies, and Hard Drive Space

How many movies can I fit onto a 80gig hard drive?
Formated at least to medium-high quality.

Also is there any way to just burn a game such as the Godfather or Starcraft without needing to carry the CD with me all the time? and if so, how much space does that take up?

 

It depends on what codec you use to encode your videos. More information, is needed to answer your question in a helpful way.

 

Codec? Would this be NERO?
Im sorry as Im not experienced enough to provide this information accurately.

Basically I am looking to purchase a 100gig HD notebook and would like to allocate approximately 70-80gigs to media.

 

Movies vary from aprox 250mb to about 1 GB. g0t a calculator ?

 

the quality of a video file is directly proportional to the size of the video file.

you can have a 10 min clip that is as small as 100 MBs or less at low quality or have that same clip be 1 GB or larger at high quality.

A typical DVD movie comes on a double sided DVD which is about 8-9 GBs. so if you have a 1:1 copy of the DVD, how many can you fit on an 80 GB HD?

 

If you take just the movie and not the extras that will free up some space.

 

As ZAz says that plus a mild encode will put you at a single sided DVD size, 3.6 Gig. The question remains; what is your size goal? If you want to just time share, you can use some MP4 codecs and stuff them on your ipod or other.

 

25 is a good number to estimate from, assuming apprx 2 hours of playing time and regular encoding type and resolution acceptable for viewing on a 15.4" laptop LCD. You won't be able to use all 80 gigs, Windows XP itself takes up a few and you'll have other programs too. You can burn starcraft into an image (onto the hard drive) by using Nero. The image should be around 700 MB. Don't know about the Godfather, thought it was a trilogy of movies not a game...

 

I thought 80Gb would be enough for movies and media-as I found out, it definitely isn't. I'm already deleting stuff just to free up space. Best solution would be:

A) Replace your 80Gb HDD with the biggest one you can get (probably 160Gb for notebooks/2.5''). This is the most appropriate action if you're not going to be having a HUGE library and don't want an external drive or...
B) Get an external drive. Solves the problem of space rather easily, depeding on how mobile you need to be.

 

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Are the No-CD file sites still viable for the games? The last one I found was for Oblivion..what a pleasure not to have to use the key disk! I used to have one for Starcraft, maybe 200k in size.

I've found trojans on some of newer ones, so be carefull if you go that route.