Copying
One other thing I did this weekend was copying all the content from a couple of the old WOPR hard disks to the new ones. I have 290 movies and over 100 television shows, which is more than a little ridiculous. If I continue to rip my DVD’s then I can push that up to easily over 400, which may be even more so.
Hard disk space is becoming increasingly cheap, there’s no doubt about it. 750GB hard disks may be out there however, but it’s 300GB that is currently the price sweet spot. This means that I’m going to have to do quite a bit of swapping out of one drive for another as sizes go up and prices come down, as there’s no other way I’m going to be able to add more space. I’ve looked at all kinds of solutions to this problem, but they’re either far too slow or far too expensive. I’m sure there’s a great market out there for home storage solutions, but no company yet seems willing to step up to the plate and offer it. Surely with wireless networking getting faster all the time, especially with things like the new N standard, some type of swappable disk array you can hide away in a cupboard can’t be too much of a pie in the sky idea.
