Re: Downloading lots

john llewsrac said


> Do you download for friends / family as well? What do you use to archive
> what you download? or do you just delete what you have downloaded once
> you used/watch it?
> 
> I am currently looking at how to manage the many gigs that I have
> downloaded over the years ie cds-dvds-hddrivess....where I can hide so
> that won't be stolen.
> 
> Last year had my new pc stolen and was pleasantly surprised to find that
> I had small hddrives with a lot of what I had stolen
> photos/songs/docos/movies/games etc on the old hhdrives.

Sorry, I posted without the end.

I keep almost everything I get, and it is then archived out to DVD, I must
have more than 2 TB of hard drives in the two computers I use for my own
stuff, I also have a media/file server that I use with my HTPC setup and
that does have a lot of stuff on hard drives that the rest of the house
can watch if they want to.

As for stopping stuff from getting robbed, well I dont thing about that,
because short of keeping stuff in a safe, if someone gets in its gone, but
I have a dog and what I like to think is quite a safe house, and I try not
to have the only copy of anything on the hard drives in the computers.

Good quality DVD's are not too expensive now and running off two copies,
one on good but cheaper media (Verbatim MCC004 is what I like for this)
and then an archive copy on a TY/Verb or pure TY disk and using an LG
drive to make/write the disk (they write about the best DVD around) and I
should have a copy for the next 5+ years if I look after them.

I keep my DVD's in soft cases because the plastic cases take up far too
much room, if you have not seen any these are some of the best
http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=320 I also use plastic sleeves for
lesser stuff, these are very good
http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=311, and these are great
http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=313 because you can put them into a
ring binder.

L.

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