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Hard drives vs DVDs, $ per GB: Tie
May. 27th, 2009 08:21 amNewegg had 1TB Hitachi hard drives on sale for $75 and free shipping yesterday.
I pay about 30 cents for a DVD blank, and I typically leave about 300 megs unused on every one I burn. So a 1000GB drive is about equivalent to 250 DVDs, space-wise, and is a heck of a lot more convenient and takes less time to deal with than sorting out all those files to go onto DVD. Those 250 30c DVDs would cost....$75.
Also, in my experience anyway, hard drives are FAR more reliable than DVDs.
I need to come up with a good system for playing media off the hard drive, probably with the MythTV box because the set-top DVD player only understands FAT filesystems, and though FAT32 will technically do 2TB, I'm not sure it's a good idea.
I pay about 30 cents for a DVD blank, and I typically leave about 300 megs unused on every one I burn. So a 1000GB drive is about equivalent to 250 DVDs, space-wise, and is a heck of a lot more convenient and takes less time to deal with than sorting out all those files to go onto DVD. Those 250 30c DVDs would cost....$75.
Also, in my experience anyway, hard drives are FAR more reliable than DVDs.
I need to come up with a good system for playing media off the hard drive, probably with the MythTV box because the set-top DVD player only understands FAT filesystems, and though FAT32 will technically do 2TB, I'm not sure it's a good idea.
