S0V13T Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I was just fireing off a few DVD's of the stuff I've been collecting lately (the Peter Davidson / Tom Baker era's of Who, and the first 5 seasons of SG-1) tonight, and was wondering how my storing / archival methods fair against others, to maybe get some new ideas / create some conversation about our mutual love of makng back ups of the stuff we download. The majority of my collection is in 6 spindles. a 50 for legallly purchased games (full) a 25 for movies (room for maybe 4 more) a 25 for OEM driver / application cd's that came with hardware. You'd be surprised how many you'd have laying around, lol (full) a 50 dedicated to my Star Trek TV / Movie collection (VERY full) 2 50's for downloaded games (one's full, the other has room for about 10 more) a 50 for downloaded TV shows (at about 75%) a CD wallet with a 200 disk capacity reserved for the full run of Doctor Who, and SG-1 a 250 gig hard drive for storing movies / tv shows I either have yet to watch, or are my favs that I like to watch a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuages Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 All about the spindles, that way if you ever need to throw alot of discs at someone rapidly its possible. edit: its not cause i'm cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 CD's / DVD's's in individual jewel cases. I really enjoy making covers for my CDs/DVDs (using Photoshop). I like my "burnings" to look professional . Nice case covers and nice disk covers and notes. Mayhaps I'm a bit anal retentive? :p c4 B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annika Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Some of the above. I keep my almost-complete Star Trek collection in jewelboxes (yes, I made covers for those too). The rest (SG, BSG, B5 and a few others) I keep on spindles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beawulf Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I voted some of the above. I have mostly been deleting stuff when I am done (games and apps excepted).My 2 drives (only 80gig each) filled up so I have recently purchased a 50 dvd bundle to free up some disk space. Hoping to collect some seasons of select things...which I currently have in a wallet I had lying around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Wallets, because jewel cases take up too much room, and I hate having to snag the bottom disk of a spindle ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0V13T Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 Wallets' date=' because jewel cases take up too much room, and I hate having to snag the bottom disk of a spindle ;p[/quote'] Thats some really good reasoning! I can't even estimate how many times I've been looking for a certian cd or dvd, only to sift through 50 of them before I find the one I'm looking for, dead last at the bottom of the spindle! Well then again, the USUAL state of order here is having 40 or so dvd's scattered on top of my comp, my desk, monitor, coffee table, floor, refrigerator, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juhan Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Nuages: stop throwing those cds at S0V13T! You're messing his home up. I keep my star trek collection from niteshdw in a wallet (DVD format of course). Its only a DVD per season so its fine for now. I delete movies I've watched and games I played pretty fast, like once I'm done with them for good. No point keeping them around coz there will always be new movies and games that needs watching/playing. However keeping old stuff sometimes pays off. Like I replayed X-COM 3 quite recently and that was mongo-fun! Edit: of course, Star trek is the only thing I purposely burnt and kept coz this baby's gonna last me till I'm 6 feet under. >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheldrake1 Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I keep everthing on my drives until I burn. Then there are put into jewel cases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 CD's / DVD's's in individual jewel cases. I really enjoy making covers for my CDs/DVDs (using Photoshop). I like my "burnings" to look professional . Nice case covers and nice disk covers and notes. Mayhaps I'm a bit anal retentive? :p c4 B) yeh itried that but ran out of spqace and couldnt be bothered in the end. i just burned everything to my computer in the end and hooked up a coupla hundred watts of speakers. saves tons of spaceand is good for music trades with others with Gigs of hdd music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I throw out the jewel cases & worthless booklets, and store my CDs in a caselogic notebook. DVDs I watch once or twice & sell on ebay. -Or- if it's a really good DVD like Babylon 5, then I keep the original packaging on a bookshelf. [A nice leather notebook looks a lot better, than a hundred cases of cheap plastic gaudiness.] troy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Great poll!! DVD-spindles and hard drives for me... Not too many of either option, yet... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 In spindles and jewel cases in shoe boxes under the bed. :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 dvd-r's and 2 x 250 gig Sata hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonstalker Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Color coded jewel cases. Makes finding specific shows or seasons easier. Rack and stack on the bookcase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 just a couple of Hard Disks - i don't have that much to be honest - i mean i got like most of DS9 and some Voyager and other bits and peices. also got some on DVD's that i bought a while ago (Before i found this site of course :) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralLee Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Hard to answer... I've got about 3,000 CDR's that I've burned over the years, with all sorts of things on them. Some are just stacked up in boxes, some nicely organized, and about 900 DVD's burned from the past 18 months or so. They are stored mainly in used cake boxes, and a few of those fold out CD/DVd holders (wallets?), some in mini-CD/DVD jewel cases. I've got 8 working hardrives installed on this PC as I type this, so some things, many things, I like to keep handy so I can re-seed or even re-watch them again, if I ever need or want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Wow! That sounds more like a vocation than a hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I like keeping the best stuf, like movies and complete DVD seasons of my favorite shows in jewel cases and the rest, like the SG1 and Voyager seasons on spindles. The spindles actually work better for me because even as compulsive as I am, I kept losing disks when they were in seperate jewel case, but then the kids helped with that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waelabdo Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 CD's / DVD's in CD Wallets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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