vcp
Well-Known Member
Oh my, depressing. About nine months of ripping now, something between 1500-2000 movies, but it's the TV series that are adding up. Done all of every Star Trek, just finished 11 seasons of Big Bang Theory (90GB), and at least another dozen long-running series to go (MASH, West Wing, X-Files...). First 8TB drive is full, soon to add in the second. I had forgotten that when my children moved out, I just let them take any disks that they considered 'theirs'. They are all still local, so I've been running through their collections, which probably total another 1000-2000 disks. I think I'll be looking at ~40TB before I'm 'done'. I'm only half done with the ~2000 disks here at home. Still often have three computers running rips.
Still doing 100% backup (~RAID 0), just syncing the disks. I had been using GoodSync but it's trial quit after a few uses. It worked well and I was ready to click 'buy' for $50 - but then I saw the license: one computer. Nope, lost that sale. Now using FreeSync and it looks like it works the same. Really free, with some optional for-pay features.
Tablo rolled out their commercial skip feature. Seems to work ok on 'well-behaved' programs. When you turn on the option, it warns that it increases your upload bandwidth. Are they really uploading the recordings for processing and then sending back skip tags? It's not editing the files, since recordings downloaded with TabloRipper still have them. Things I want to keep I still process with MCEBuddy to remove commercials. Tablo also increased its 'live' TV guide from 48 hours to two weeks, which is nice.
But it is really fun to have all of it handy on PLEX. Worth it.
Still doing 100% backup (~RAID 0), just syncing the disks. I had been using GoodSync but it's trial quit after a few uses. It worked well and I was ready to click 'buy' for $50 - but then I saw the license: one computer. Nope, lost that sale. Now using FreeSync and it looks like it works the same. Really free, with some optional for-pay features.
Tablo rolled out their commercial skip feature. Seems to work ok on 'well-behaved' programs. When you turn on the option, it warns that it increases your upload bandwidth. Are they really uploading the recordings for processing and then sending back skip tags? It's not editing the files, since recordings downloaded with TabloRipper still have them. Things I want to keep I still process with MCEBuddy to remove commercials. Tablo also increased its 'live' TV guide from 48 hours to two weeks, which is nice.
But it is really fun to have all of it handy on PLEX. Worth it.