When will HD prices be back to pre flood levels?

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Originally Posted by kpxgq

at this point, i would just give up on traditional HDDs and go SSD for everything... the economies of scale are readily hitting parity

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While SSD prices are falling, they're still not even remotely close to hard drive prices to be usable for large storage. At the moment hard drive prices are recovering here but still not reached their pre-flood prices while SSD's are the cheapest they've ever been, despite that a 2TB hard drive is still less than a 128GB SSD.

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Originally Posted by Steven P Jobs

I don't understand this digital hoarding. What percentage of all those DVDs you painstakingly ripped are you actually going to watch ever again? And does it really take longer to go and grab the DVD from some shelf than you spent on setting up your home server?

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I rip my blu-rays/DVDs for my phone and other media devices which lack optical drives, once I've ripped it may as well keep it for the next time I want to watch it as blu-rays take some time to rip.

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Originally Posted by Learux

What is it that you guys store on these drives, I have 25Gb of pictures and that is all I need to save?

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Primarily the output from my digital cameras, I save both raw and jpeg as well as AVCHD and renders which needs over a TB and keeps growing. I also have a library of applications, software isos (I have a hard drive which appears as a virtual optical drive with the selected iso) and PC image backups.

John

I got **** tons of TV/Movie/Porn/Etc (it's a lot)

I currently got about 7 TB of storage with 3.5TB left over. I'm hoping HDD prices drop before I have to buy a new HDD.

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Originally Posted by Steven P Jobs

I don't understand this digital hoarding. What percentage of all those DVDs you painstakingly ripped are you actually going to watch ever again? And does it really take longer to go and grab the DVD from some shelf than you spent on setting up your home server?

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I would say 80%. I have watch some movies a dozen times. I spend most of the time watching my ripped DVD's in bed. I usually go to bed and either read whatever book I happen reading or do some gaming on my laptop. When I get done with that I will watch a DVD until I feel sleepy. I might watch 15-30 minutes on any given night so it sometimes takes me a few nights to finish a movie. Sometimes I switch between movies. I also have the DVD's available to anyone who is over.