Posted: 1/25/2011 12:34:08 AM EDT
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This time, it's my non copy DVD's. Been stacking them on two book shelves but am running out of space. Well, today, I think I found a partial answer.
Cardboard box at one of the office stores. Holds 26. Of course, like a box, if there are multiple boxes stacked, one has to take them all down to get at the bottom one....or be inventive and build a stacking system. With the information explosion we have placed ourselves in, it would be nice if storage systems were uniformed. But no, it's like this way for a few years, but then they disappear, and it's a new system where one is trying to find a way to use it with the older approach they have. Seems it is a constant reinvention of the wheel. ________________________________________________ (After 007 has tricked Solitaire into sleeping with him by a phony Tarot message. "Darling, I have a confession to make. Now, don't be mad, but the deck was slightly stacked in my favor."––Bond, (w,stte), "Live and Let Die") |
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Why not an external HD? I doubt USB will go out of favor or be obsolete anytime soon. Even if it does you'll only be looking at one click to transfer to the future media storage. What am i missing? Aren't the movie DVD's one buys protected from loading, copying on to a computer? In any event, it still leaves me with the "originals" which must be kept. One might argue that the movie on the HD is a working copy but one still needs the original so that working copy doesn't become a pirated copy. ___________________________________________________________ ("You caught all my duplicates but you didn't catch me!"––Mulitman to villain, (w,stte), "The Impossibles") |
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You're talking about physical storage of purchased disks? DVD/blu-ray etc? Am I missing something? The physical format hasn't changed in years, what wheel is being reinvented? The boxes to keep them in. A while back, a company made two drawer sets for audio cassettes, VCR tapes, and CD's. They may have also made drawers for DVD's but I wasn't into it then. They ran for about $10 apiece and had the capability to store 18 VCR tapes (to give you an idea of their size). Suddenly, the company disappeared. Their stock began showing up in the mail order catalogs but at double the price. When the stock was used up, the drawer system was essentially gone. One might have been able to buy drawers for CD's at COMPUSA......but that company bought the farm, too. For a great while there, there seemed to be no way to store massive amounts of CD's. Oh, one might find an audio system, a stack system that looked like modern art for a few, but for a lot..........forget it. Then Office Depot started selling systems, but they were complex. They had the lockable briefcase, essentially a binder inside. They had lockable,stackable drawers, but they were rather expensive. And then they had boxes. Rather cheap....but without the drawer feasability. They stacked on each other. It seems we have been in data storage, boxes, for 25-30 years......but they don't remain stable. A type disappears and one has to figure out a way to mishmash what they have with what is around now. _________________________________________________________ ("Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!"––Box, (w,stte), "Logan's Run") |
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I think the bottom line problem for you is that you are looking for purpose-built storage for obsolete items. If VCR tape, DVD, and CD sales were still strong (as opposed to data transfer over the computer), then the storage items would still be produced. Yeah, probably. The old thing of "Why have it all the time when you can get whenever you want?" Two reasons. First of all, the stuff I want I often can't get it whenever I want. People don't store them, they aren't popular items. Secondly, in my rules, about the second time I pay for rental, to me, it is time to buy my own copy. Curious thing on over the computer. Right now, at my feet, I've got two 500G external drives working. A new one by yesterday, and a new one by last Fall. The older one is practically full and I'm shifting data between the two. I have maybe 7 built as external hard drives (as oppose to internals converted to the task) and 4 or 5 portables.......and almost all of the are loaded with data. Sure, a small part of one or two have movies or TV shows but that use of HD space right now is very low on the totem pole.....especially when out of 3 TV's and 5 DVD players, the HD's can't be hooked up into them. No USB port. At any rate. If one has the name of an on line store for movie transfers to computer, I'll take a look at it. ______________________________________________________________ ("Why so long?"––Riker to Data about how long it takes to download the derelict's computer. "They were collecting data for many months, Commander.", (w,stte), ST:TNG "Hero Worship") |
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Thank you, but it really doesn't address the issue. I have steel shelving already and really, no room to put any more in. Thanks, though. ____________________________________________________________________ (“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”––Bill Gates, (wtte)) |
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You're talking about physical storage of purchased disks? DVD/blu-ray etc? Am I missing something? The physical format hasn't changed in years, what wheel is being reinvented? The boxes to keep them in. A while back, a company made two drawer sets for audio cassettes, VCR tapes, and CD's. They may have also made drawers for DVD's but I wasn't into it then. They ran for about $10 apiece and had the capability to store 18 VCR tapes (to give you an idea of their size). Suddenly, the company disappeared. Their stock began showing up in the mail order catalogs but at double the price. When the stock was used up, the drawer system was essentially gone. One might have been able to buy drawers for CD's at COMPUSA......but that company bought the farm, too. For a great while there, there seemed to be no way to store massive amounts of CD's. Oh, one might find an audio system, a stack system that looked like modern art for a few, but for a lot..........forget it. Then Office Depot started selling systems, but they were complex. They had the lockable briefcase, essentially a binder inside. They had lockable,stackable drawers, but they were rather expensive. And then they had boxes. Rather cheap....but without the drawer feasability. They stacked on each other. It seems we have been in data storage, boxes, for 25-30 years......but they don't remain stable. A type disappears and one has to figure out a way to mishmash what they have with what is around now. _________________________________________________________ ("Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!"––Box, (w,stte), "Logan's Run") Ok well, here's my take on the issue. If you're looking to store the original packaging with the DVDs and CDs, then straight shelving is your best bet. If it has to be secure for some reason, then a regular shelved cabinet or filecabinet is your best bet, if you can't secure the storage room itself. You really can't get greater storage density than what plain old shelves provide. If you're willing to take the "leap" and realize that as "pretty" as they may be, you don't need all those jewel cases and dvd boxes, well, just toss them and start putting the disks in binders. This is what I've done for all my computer related CDs and DVDs. I've kept the cases for the entertainment stuff because I don't have very many in that department. The front of the binder usually has a pocket, so if there is stuff printed inside the jewel case that I need, like a serial #, I take the paper out of the jewel case and stuff it into the pocket. Those binders haven't significantly changed shape or size since they first came out. If you're worried about them not looking the same, you can simply buy standard generic 3 ring office binders, and buy the sleeves separately. Install or build shelves designed to hold the binders instead. I don't know what to tell you about the VHS tapes. Rip them all to DVD (or even 8mm –– better for long term archival than anything optical) and toss them. |
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Thank you.
The VCR tapes are not really the problem though there is a lot of them....20+ years or so, as a matter of fact. Have 4 or 5 machines to convert them though it is a long process, both in the conversion and in cataloging them. As oppose to why have them at all? Well, they are an interesting historical database of a sort. Looking at a world that is pre internet to pre cell phone (all those 10 10 321 commercials) to now. Since I do media research fro mtime to time, it is unthinkable to just dump them. ______________________________________________________ ("I don't suppose those future overnight bags are all orphans?"––007 looking at baby alligators and crocs "Oh, no, we have some moms and dads here as well....quite a few thousand of them, as a matter of fact."––Tee Hee, (w,stte), "Live and Let Die") |