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dirtiderdan

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4. August 2010 @ 13:57

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I'm wondering what you guys may be doing as far as backing up and storing your movies and such is concerned. Looking for some feedback as to how best to name and organize massive amount of data before I go about doing this. Also, some devices that I would stream to in the house need to be converted to other formats. So I would like to keep them in other formats besides the original as well. I want to be able to add storage space as I need it and hopefully not need to move stuff all over the place to keep it organized and be able to find things.

First issue is file/folder name. I'd like to have all the info on the folder so it is easily seen when browsing through any media streaming device. I was just going to put folders for each movie at the root level. So I was thinking of including name, quality (720p/1080p), format (blu ray, avi, etc). An example would be "The Who - Live at Kilburn (1977) [2009] [720p] [x264]" or "Vertical Limit [2000] [1080p] [x264]". Anything else I should include or other ideas?

Assume I will just start with a couple external hard drives. I only want to buy drives as I need them since storage prices quickly drop. In time this could grow to a rack server. If I simply put movies on the drives alphabetically then when I run out of space I need to move many files from the first drive to the second and so on. So for instance if I start with 2 drives and the first contains movies a-m and then the second n-z and I am totally full then I add a third drive and have to move stuff from the second drive to the third and from the first to the second. So as you can see this is very tedious and exponential when adding more drives. However at least it would remain organized and I'd be able to find things easily. Anyone know of a good catalog system or have a better idea?

There are a lot of other issues that could be discussed about this and I welcome those comments too but this is enough for me to start with. Thanks.

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