100 Disc CD Storage Electronic System

12/27/2007 04:23:13 PM · #1

Has anyone tired this or have it?

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I have about 300+ DVD's that I would like to catalog and beable to find with ease and was wondering if anyone has this or know someone that using something like this.

Thoughts?

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

12/27/2007 04:40:54 PM · #2

bump

rex

Canon PowerShot SD780

12/27/2007 04:44:50 PM · #3

I like to keep my music cd's and movies in the case. SO I would never use it.

Also I store mine on a rack in Alphabetical order so it makes everything really easy to find. Someone borrows a cd and I can tell which one is missing from afar and I have over 900 cds.

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

12/27/2007 05:50:00 PM · #4

You know... a CD only holds something like 700Mb. That means, 100 of them only hold 70000Mb or 70Gb. You can buy a 500Gb drive for $120 (just $30 more than that CD carousel) and it'll store 700 CDs for you with much faster access times too. :-)

Working the DVD numbers, it's not quite as impressive, but still... at about 4.7Gb per DVD, 100 of them would only be 470Gb, so that same 500Gb drive will hold all 100 of your DVDs.

Anyway, I only mention this in case someone might consider using the carousel and CDs to archive their photos. To me, CDs just don't make sense. It's a lot faster to archive the photos to an external hard drive. If you're actually wanting to store DVD movies, the carousel might make some sense (if you plan to part with the DVD cover, anyway).

SamDoe1

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

12/27/2007 07:56:58 PM · #5

I agree with dwterry, having a hard drive to store all your stuff is the best way to do it. I personally have a 500gb hard drive that's connected to a POS laptop which outputs to a stereo for everything from videos to music. When it comes to DVDs, I'm starting to rip all my dvd's to hard drives cause it's just so much easier to catalog, find, and play them. The only issue with DVD's is the shear size of them but hard drives are getting cheaper every day. Another problem is that there's no digital sound (yet) out of that laptop so the sound quality benefit of DVD's is lost to me unless I put it in the player.

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon

12/27/2007 08:09:01 PM · #6

I actually have a 1TB external storage drive that holds alot of stuff already but my problem is not that I want to store video on the drive. I want to keep them on a DVD so I can watch them on a TV or loan them out to people (which is what I do most of the time anyway), So to make it faster and less manual I am looking into this system to allow me to store and catalog them.

FocusPoint

XIAOMI Redmi Note 8 Pro

12/27/2007 08:26:53 PM · #7

Dirt_Diver, I know what you mean. Jukeboxes could be a good idea to hold your DVDs, but just a reminder to those who think HD is not safe enough: I say 4 X 800 GB HD, with 1600 GB storage using RAID 1, you can't go wrong. That's a huge 1.6 TB of almost fail-proof backup because of the RAID 1 setup. If you want to be more secure, you can always use mirror backup system next to main one. And more secure is to have that mirror system on other location synced daily via broadband communication.

Also, have all that stored in a storage ad DVD format would triple the file security for disasters. or accidents :P

HD options are very cheap these days, until 100 GB + Flash HDs are cheap enough, we still stuck with plates, which not 100% reliable, but can be made reliable using RAID systmes.

Phil

Canon EOS-7D

12/27/2007 08:32:28 PM · #8

Originally posted by rex:

Whaddya do when you buy a cd and the artists name starts with a B? Do you move 800+ cds down a slot to make room for it?