So, I’m finally doing what I’ve wanted to do for the past couple of years. In preparation for our big move across the country, I’m packing up not only my belongings, but my media collection. Years ago, I ripped all of my CDs to mp3 and now I’m going through the process of ripping all of my DVDs to mp4. I picked up two Maxtor 1TB externals for $230 a piece (at Best Buy!) and have spent the last few days dumping mp4s and mp3s onto one of them. Yesterday, I noticed I had already passed the 500 gig mark, so I thought I should stop and back them up onto the other 1TB drive.

That’s my plan–since hard drives are so very fallible (as are optical disks), I decided to keep everything on one drive and use a back-up application (I use Deja Vu for the Mac) to automatically back up everything.

The only catch I’ve run into so far is the time it takes to back up 500+ gigs of media–it’s loooong. Notice one of my drives was last modified at 10:46pm last night–that’s when I started the back-up. Now check my system clock–yep–it took that long to finish. I think that’s like 17-and-a-half hours to back up half-a-TB. The thing is, I’m not done yet. O_O

Anyway, I feel like any kind of DVD is not long for this world, what with Blu-Ray having just won the war and holodiscs being around the corner (here: http://snurl.com/hvd ). So, this is my solution. In a perfect world I’d have a third Teradrive that I’d back-up onto once a month that I’d keep under my pillow at night. :D

Now, imagine having your entire media collection in the palm of your hand. Now imagine having *my* entire media collection in the palm of your hand. Yeah, that rocks.

Of course, it’ll rock more once those holodiscs are affordable and I can burn my entire collection to a single 3.9 tera HVD (almost 4 times over!) and then mail them to friends for safe keeping. ^_^

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