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[Alex2507]

I think that copying blu-rays that I don't own is unethical.

It is but forgiveness is something that I think should start with me so I if I knew how to copy the blasted things it would be a perfect opportunity for me to practice forgiveness by forgiving myself over and over and over again.

 

[avnetguy]

I do, but that's where the logistics portion of my post comes in. It's easier for me to just put the discs in to watch them. I don't own that many or watch them all that often.

The storage isn't bad if you're just doing movies you watch fairly often. I have 4 BR reencoded rips sitting on my PS3 and probably will have 5-6 more once those titles drop in price, then that'll be about it. I don't buy movies I know I'm not going to watch many times as I can always rent it again if I really want to see it.

One thing I really like about having them on the PS3 is not having to go through all the previews, warning and other junk that comes up before the movie, just play and go.

Steve

 

[Adam]

It is but forgiveness is something that I think should start with me so I if I knew how to copy the blasted things it would be a perfect opportunity for me to practice forgiveness by forgiving myself over and over and over again.

Stuff like this is why I wear my "What would Alex do?" bracelet.

 

[GlocksRock]

12 discs with 32tb and no backup/redudancy across them? No thanks. haha. If only corporate storage could be had at those prices. I just paid about $500k for ~40tb. Silly.

Backup/redundancy isn't really needed if you own the physical discs, you can just re-rip them, yes it's a pain, but way better thay spending twice as much on hard drives to have a backup, when the blu ray disc itself is the backup.

 

[its phillip]

Let's just say you have one 3TB drive full of bluray isos fail on you. That'll probably be 60-80 movies (a guess, since I've never ripped a bluray or downloaded a bluray iso). How long would it take you to rip those again? It would probably make more sense to just have some sort of redundancy - it won't be a true backup, but it'll be better than nothing.

 

[Hocky]

Let's just say you have one 3TB drive full of bluray isos fail on you. That'll probably be 60-80 movies (a guess, since I've never ripped a bluray or downloaded a bluray iso). How long would it take you to rip those again? It would probably make more sense to just have some sort of redundancy - it won't be a true backup, but it'll be better than nothing.

For sure, that is more time than I would want to spend to recover. I would, at a minimum, have all of the disks in a raid 5 array.

 

[darien87]

One thing I really like about having them on the PS3 is not having to go through all the previews, warning and other junk that comes up before the movie, just play and go.

Steve

That sounds awesome! I didn't know you could do that. Now I'll have to seriously consider it.

 

[FirstReflection]

12 discs with 32tb and no backup/redudancy across them? No thanks. haha. If only corporate storage could be had at those prices. I just paid about $500k for ~40tb. Silly.

Seems crazy to have no RAID at first, right? But, as I said, I'm making backups onto the hard drives of movies that I own! Worst case scenario is that a disc fails, I replace it, and I have to re-rip the 75 or so movies that were stored on it. A bit of a time suck and a hassle? Sure. Yes. But not the end of the world. And for me, not worth the cost of doubling my setup so that I can have redundancy. Now, if I were storing content for which I did not have the original discs, it'd be much more of a concern! But the way I have it, it's actually safer this way. If I were to use a JBOD or a RAID setup where my volumes spanned across multiple discs, losing one lone hard drive to a failure would mean an even bigger headache! With each disc just being in "basic" and having one volume per disc, a dead disc is a simple matter of swap, re-rip, carry on

 

[FirstReflection]

Let's just say you have one 3TB drive full of bluray isos fail on you. That'll probably be 60-80 movies (a guess, since I've never ripped a bluray or downloaded a bluray iso). How long would it take you to rip those again? It would probably make more sense to just have some sort of redundancy - it won't be a true backup, but it'll be better than nothing.

Yup, I've got about 75-80 Blu-ray ISO files (plus the MyMovies covers and metadata for each movie) on each 3TB drive. Would some sort of redundancy save me from having to re-rip all of those discs? Yes, it surely would. And maybe one day I'll set things up that way. But not right this minute since hard drive prices have doubled

To be honest, re-ripping 80 discs doesn't take as long as one might think. That's mainly because I've got 4 computers (including my laptop) with a Blu-ray drive (or external USB Blu-ray drive) for each. So, it's about a 20 hour venture to re-rip 80 movies. Certainly, that sucks. But since the DS411j NAS servers are rather slow and not very powerful, it isn't exactly a speedy process to rebuild a RAID setup after a disc replacement either! Faster than re-ripping, absolutely. But, like I said, not the end of the world It'll give me an excuse to vacuum and dust the boxes in my closet where all the physical discs are in storage

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

No idea how topic about HTCP turned into BD ripping - one has almost nothing to do with the other, but I'll chime on the later

Only yesterday for the first time ever I saw DTS-HD MSTR label lid up on my receiver. That said few annoying issues came forward rather quickly.

Making ISO file out of folders with BD files is rather long and annoying process despite the fact I'm using separate drives for source and target
50MB/s write speeds - while ok for 4gb DVD images - manipulating BD's with 10 times the size is rather cumbersome and slow

Need to start planning for fast network storage system ...

100Mbs home network is OK for streaming a BD image, but preloading of menus (I assume it called BD-Live) is quite annoyingly slow as it takes a minute or two - I gotta go to 1 Gb network

 

[GlocksRock]

No idea how topic about HTCP turned into BD ripping - one has almost nothing to do with the other, but I'll chime on the later

Only yesterday for the first time ever I saw DTS-HD MSTR label lid up on my receiver. That said few annoying issues came forward rather quickly.

Making ISO file out of folders with BD files is rather long and annoying process despite the fact I'm using separate drives for source and target
50MB/s write speeds - while ok for 4gb DVD images - manipulating BD's with 10 times the size is rather cumbersome and slow

Need to start planning for fast network storage system ...

100Mbs home network is OK for streaming a BD image, but preloading of menus (I assume it called BD-Live) is quite annoyingly slow as it takes a minute or two - I gotta go to 1 Gb network

I remember the first time I saw the DTS-HD MSTR light up on my receiver, it was like Christmas all over again!

I make .iso files from folders and it doesn't take that long, but I guess it all depends on your pc, and I also use separate drives for source and target. But I will say, having upgraded my network to gigabit really made a huge difference in transferring those giant files around.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I remember the first time I saw the DTS-HD MSTR light up on my receiver, it was like Christmas all over again!

I make .iso files from folders and it doesn't take that long, but I guess it all depends on your pc, and I also use separate drives for source and target. But I will say, having upgraded my network to gigabit really made a huge difference in transferring those giant files around.

I cant really blame my pc - it's pretty new - core i5-2500k and 8gb ddr3
harddrives are older, but one newest one is wd green
perhaps not the best choice for a fast drive , but it got tons of room

Yes, Christmas -but in green

 

[Slee_Stack]

I like the idea of an (economical) commercial box. Perhaps I could finally rip my SACD collection. All of my other music, including my DVD-A titles, resides on my media center and is so convenient to access. Still I have to go reaching for the SACDs when I want to hear them. Adding insult to injury is that most of my SACDs are irreplaceable if they ever fail. Most are out of print and the prospect of paying $150-$200 for a USED replacement one isn't exactly attractive. Currently I have one SACD which is de-laminating at the spindle hole. It still plays fine, but it really underscores why 'Fair Use' laws are, indeed, fair. Should my discs die, there will be no replacements from the manufacturer and that's just wrong. I want 'em ripped!


As an aside, I do know you can rip SACD with certain older PS3s, but I don't own one. They currently run $500+ too. Bleh.