Source storage problems?

[Gene Starwind 21122]

External Hard drives are getting cheaper and cheaper. Right now I have 1 TB external drive that I have had for years, a brand new 3 TB drive and my internal drive is 500 GB. Thinking about getting an internal 2 TB for larger projects. Have to see if it'll work with XP or not since that's what I'm still using for my editing computer. I personally save all my ripped DVD's so that way I don't have to spend time re-ripping them. I did that for years and it was a pain. If I have a source and I want to make another video with it again I want it easily accessable. So that's what I plan on doing.

A 3 TB external drive at Walmart was only $119.

[BasharOfTheAges]

External Hard drives are getting cheaper and cheaper. Right now I have 1 TB external drive that I have had for years, a brand new 3 TB drive and my internal drive is 500 GB. Thinking about getting an internal 2 TB for larger projects. Have to see if it'll work with XP or not since that's what I'm still using for my editing computer. I personally save all my ripped DVD's so that way I don't have to spend time re-ripping them. I did that for years and it was a pain. If I have a source and I want to make another video with it again I want it easily accessable. So that's what I plan on doing.

A 3 TB external drive at Walmart was only $119.

Between my main system and my file server i'm sitting on 13TB internal, an extra 6TB I need a new PCI SATA card before I can access, and another 7TB in externals reserved for other purposes. I've got the space covered for now - was just curious what people were doing with their HD footage.

[Qyot27]

I usually keep the original ripped episodes on the drive, as well as the LQ MJPEG copies, and only convert the relevant clips to HuffYUV for editing. Once the editing is done, I delete the MPEG-2s and MJPEG copies, convert the clips to FFV1 (was Lagarith for a long time, but FFV1 tends to be more reliable), pack them away in an archive with the rest of the project files and the scripts/d2v files, and burn the archive to a DVD-R. Then I get all of it off the drive.

Considering it all has to fit on an 80GB external, it's about the only thing I can do. I've yet to edit with Blu-ray sourced footage; I wouldn't be crazy enough to attempt that with this drive. The 160GB main drive is a no-go because between a tremendous backlog of media (mostly because I was stuck with a little 15" 1024x768 LCD for a few years), and having to allot the last ~30 GBs to the root/swap/home partitions for my Ubuntu install, I've got no space to really spare.

I have been thinking about going through another round of upgrades, though. Replacing the increasingly-flaky USB 2.0 card with a USB 3.0 card, replacing the ethernet card with a SATA card (and getting a USB ethernet adapter to pick up the slack there), replacing the main drive with a 2TB or 3TB drive and the DVD* drive with a Blu-ray burner (both of which would require the SATA card since this motherboard is too old to have any SATA support at all; same point with why I have a USB 2.0 card in this thing - it originally only supported USB 1.1).

*technically it was a DVD-RW drive, but it lost the ability to burn discs (and read most dual layer discs) years ago.

[blue.bear]

I hope that soon we could storage much bigger files in cloud.