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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I was in the same position. I garbaged almost all my DVD cases and kept my original DVD in case the MPAA Nazzis come knocking.
I bought 2 1.5 TB Hard drives and made a clone copy onto the second one then took it out of my computer. Its kept in a cool low humidity location with its antistatic bag. I have outlook reminders set to test it twice a year just to make sure.
Online backup options arent cost effective for that kind of storage. They are good for documents etc but not the archiving of all your DVDs.
FYI - Handbrake + AnyDVD is the shiz. 30 day free trial of AnyDVD - if you need it longer just rebuild your computer - I did 3 times. If AnyDVD was reasonable priced I would have no problem dropping $20 for it, but not $60 for a 1 year license.
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I also plan on keeping the DVD's. I'll just pack them away in my TV cabinet or something. Although throwing out the boxes is not a bad idea to save space.
Since your backup hard drive isn't connected to your computer are you not backing new movies or are you not buying DVD's anymore? Or are you fully Blu-ray now? I'm fully Blu-ray when comes to movies, but I haven't quite let go of DVD's when it comes to TV series. Especially when the cost difference is so great as it is with some series.
I've been running my test rip DVD's with DVD Shrink and Handbreak and it seems to be working not too bad so far.