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- nucleocide, on 10/12/2007, -8/+79and one day my watch will be able to do this
- zentro, on 10/12/2007, -9/+53Cool. But does he have a girlfriend? There.
- Junto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22He looks like a valid target for the RIAA! "Allegedly"!
- WhosYourDaddy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24I burned all 750 of my DVDs to DVD-R and sold all the originals on line for about $3,000. Then I spent that money to buy two 400 disc DVD players on clearance from Worst Buy and put the rest down on a 50" LCD! Same effect and I didn't lose a month of my life!
- localzuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It is not a case of 'collect and watch once' with good movies for me. I get a good movie and I will watch it many times - each time (normally) spotting something I didn't the time(s) before.
If you go and buy dvd's and only watch them once you are wasting a lot of money. Why not just go to the cinema or rent the movie? - SoccerBoy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20When I was looking at this it reminded me of when I didn't have a girlfriend and I did stuff like this (not 5 terabyte though)... now that I have a girlfriend, the motivation and the free time isn't there.
- MattH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Members if the Motion Picture Association of America might show some interest becuse to rip 500 DVDs you need to break CCS copy protection and violating the DCMA but the studiosa may have a hard time convincing a judge that this guy is breaking any law becuse he is using backups of the videos he owns for personal use .
The MPAA is investigating how to stream video to multiple computers over a home network in a secure way becuse that is what customers are asking for .So this guy is just a early adopter ;) - Sinscriven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I assume because for all that time, energy, and money drained into his "little" project he has pretty much zero to show for in terms of eye candy. So in order to impress people he's got to be like "IHAVEALLTHESEMOVIESONMY5TBHD!"
The paradox of Minimalism: You spend more to have less. - SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Do you mean petabyte?
- BaCk1a5h, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Sweet setup besides all the dvs all over, you have a 500 dvd server...put the dvds away lol
- dougmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9`Um yeah 2 x 500 = 1000 / 100 = 10' ... actually, having a 500 watt power supply just means that it can put out up to 500 watts .. not that it uses 500 watts all the time. In this guy's case, estimating 15 watts per drive and 100 watts for the MB and other stuff, I'd guess he uses around 400 watts total. Your power supply is probably around 80% efficient, so that would work out to around 500 watts.
At $0.10/KWh (which is somewhat close to the average cost of electricity in the US), that's $0.05/hr, or about $36/month. - SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"I think that you're stretching the term 'early adopter' if it's illegal at the time."
The only reason it's "illegal" is because MPAA lobbied to make it so. What he's done violates no copyright law. It's *fair use*. It's only criminalized because the MPAA got congress to sign off on a bill that says if you break encryption on DVDs you're breaking the law. It's a ***** law. Copyright law already made distribution illegal. Why make breaking encryption illegal if it serves no further purpose except to criminalize fair use? - PercyKittenz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I just switched from MythTV to Meedio, which is what he seems to be running as a frontend. I'm sure MythTV is great for recording TV shows, but Meedio has some really nice features for browsing your content and making on-the-fly changes to the menu system. The plugin interface is rather obtuse still, but the main program itself is beautiful if you've got all your movies organized into folders already. I also like that I can browse my drives from inside Meedio and it works with mouse input instead of just the keyboard.
- rsteinke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Word, he's gotta have the server in either his basement or a closet with air flow. That'd get annoying trying to watch a movie.
- rudolphdude, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13And now we know where the source of increased hurricane frequency has come from...
- briangig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11*knock knock*
Hello sir, this is the MPAA. - vinny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+85 Terebytes seems a little overkill for 500 DVDs. If he compressed those using H.264, each DVD would only take up about 1GB of space, so he could have gotten by with just 2 250GB drives, not 20.
- Julikaefer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If it runs 24/7 and really draws 2x500W that are 720kw/h per month. For me this would be about 130 Euro/month.
- thejadedmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10That guy's sure as hell gonna have one big a$$ electric bill!
- Mudcrutch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9so if he has the server, why cant he at least HIDE all those DVD cases --- it just looks cluttered.
- mikeycav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"I'm guessing the server ran about $5,000 total."
Yeah, but what about the two friggin' huge TVs he has, plus all the audio equipment, which isn't mentioned? Plus, 500 DVDs starts to add up to some $$$.
I mean, it's great he put it together. But this story would not have been given mention if he had this hooked up to a 24" RCA conventional TV with a Radio Shack cable to convert stereo RCA plugs into a stereo mini-jack for his 5-year old JVC boom-box.
Oh yes, I went there. I just recreated the kickin' dorm setup about half of all of you had in college to impress the ladies.
;) - gollo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Um yeah 2 x 500 = 1000 / 100 = 10
So that would be 10 100W light bulbs not 5 and that would add up really fast. - tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6whats said to think is that im willing to bet that almost everyday, he says to himself 'i wish there was something on TV'
- vlademonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7he said it was $5000 just for the 5 Terabyte storage server, not for the entire home theater
- nogami, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I could use a 20x250gb server, but I sure as hell wouldn't load it with my DVD collection. Why would I want to watch all the same movies again and again? I like to collect stuff I like, but that doesn't mean I watch it all that often.
- rsteinke, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Dugg because it's a hugeassed server full of movies, I personally would have used MythTV or Media Portal, but that's just me.
- SirVanderhoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think that you're stretching the term 'early adopter' if it's illegal at the time. Not that I don't back up my dvd's, just saying it's boring waiting for the RIAA/MPAA to wise up that they could be both making people happy and boatloads of money if they were smart.
- BritOverseas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I am looking into doing this soon. I already have most of the actual hardware for the AV side of it (All the TV's receivers etc), just need to run the wires for the house and buy the TB arrays. I Will then be able to watch any movie I have, in any room in the house, plus listen to all my MP3's, watch the security camers and all of this should be able to be done on UMPC's over a wired or wireless network.
I am also thinking about incorporating the HVAC and lights, but that may be later. - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"1 full of pron (had to pay for this $hit somehow : )"
Tell me, how can I pay for things with pron? I didn't realize it was legal tender.. - stalky14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm just impressed he found 500 DVD's worth owning. I've amassed maybe 20 over the past 6 years total.
I wonder if he's including a bunch of boxed-sets in that. - lame_duck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You do know that just because it can do 500 watts doesn't mean it's pulling 500 watts, right?
- philz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5He he - I just built my 2.8TB RAID5 Server AND I have a girlfriend. (no .JPG in her name)
- jacksim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You lost more than a month, I guess, to rip, re-encode and burn 750 DVDs!
- NewEvolution, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Seriously. That thing has to sound like a Cesna at full throttle. Not that I wouldn't be thrilled to have 5 terabytes at my disposal...
- nograz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ripped DVDs to DVD-R or DL DVD-R, because if it is the first option. Why even bother, most ripped DVD have to be compressed to fit on a single layer DVD, which means the picture quality goes down. Some DVDs must look down right horrible on that 50" HDTV.
I know DVDs that I own with band transfers that look bad on my 55" HDTV and it doesn't even scale to 720p to further compound the problem. - mcfreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah great, and the first time he loses one of those 20 drives its toast. How is he running 5T at Raid 0, that's just crazy.
- noahhendrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone else notice the VCR in the top left hand corner of the first picture? Kind of sticks out like a sore thumb.. huh?
- latinjones, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14Dude....the guys obviously got some money. I'm sure he could buy a girlfriend, or maybe hit the clubs if he wasn't too busy watching DVD's all the time.
- turbopro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3geez, get 5 terabyte storage. really really really cool.
zenith lcd tv. quite possibly the worst LCD TV to watch those movies on. - CaptainCalculus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He is probably running Raid 0 to make full use of his claimed 5 terabytes...
I really want one of his drives to fail just so it teaches him to get a more redundant system in there - timdawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, that's a sweet setup. I wish I had that much money!
- soleblazer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Not really , two 500 watters doesnt eat up tons of juice
- briangig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3combine that with this: http://www.digg.com/technology/Now_-_this_is_a_home_theater
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -17/+20"Oh honey that magic smoke you were talking about the other day has been comming out of the computer closet for about an hour now, I tried to catch it all in some jars and a shopvac so you could put it all back in, but I might have missed some."
- ericmoritz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Stop bragging. I'll be in my corner feeling inadequate.
- jabfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4***** the starving people, i would rather have this pr0n server
- nograz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Almost all DVDs shipped now are over the single layer limit of 4.7 GB.
Most of my DVDs seem to be in the 5 to 8 GB range, depending on extras. Most DVDs though you can get pretty close to that 4.7 GB, it depends on the length of the movie, audio tracks that you can take out and the compression that they used at the studio. - bigboehmboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree with vinny. In addition, how in the hell did you end up paying a dollar a gig? That seems extremely high to me, can't you get about 40 cents a gig?
- dengar69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am going to assume he keeps his storage array in the basement because Im sure it sounds like a jet turbine when its on. Theres no way I could watch any movie with that thing in the living room.
- BLKMGK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Okay.... I OWN about 500 DVDs. Now picture trying to house that many DVD in your home someplace where you can, easily, find which one you want at any time. Now, picture the eyes of anyone who walks into your home and sees the rack of easy to fence DVDs just sitting there. Now imagine an array storing it all, streaming it to a media frontend (MCE and My Movies for mine), and being able to A) put the DVD cases where no one can see them and B) allow you to instantly search by actor, genre, title, or whatever whenever you want to see a movie. Beginning to see why he did this yet? Add to that the ability to upscale, filter, or tweak the video output realtime. HRM! Did I mention no more FBI warnings? No more forced trailers? That I can skip the menu completely if I wanted to set it up that way?
I have a little over 2.1TB in an unRAID from Lime-Technology.com. I am about to start ripping my DVDs, likely tonight. I figure I'll need to double my current storage but this box can hold 12 drives so by the time I'm out of space I'll have bought more. I've not got the flashy screens he's got but when I'm done I hope to be able to access anything AND hide away my expensive stuff. It gets WAAAAY too much attention and honestly just finding a particular DVD is a PITA. Between hunting them down (alphabetized), friends borrowing them, and the grandkid making a mess of them it will be a relief to get this done. Hell, just racking that many takes up a TON of space and costs a bunch! Want fun? Buy a new one and discover that in order to put it into the rack you must shift 400+ DVDs over to make room..... DOH! -
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