That sounds pretty good - it would be nice to grab a few of those and
setup raid or btrfs (does anyone have experience with btrfs?  is it
stable?)

Devin


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Andrew McNabb<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:21:32AM -0600, Devin Flake wrote:
>> I would like to know how to do this but without sacrificing quality
>> and without using huge amounts of space - is that possible?
>
> Newegg has a 1.5 TB hard drive for $120 right now.  I wouldn't call it
> "cheap", but it's getting there.  A back-of-the-envelope calculation
> shows that a 1.5 TB should be able to hold about 200 lossless DVD
> backups.  This makes it about 60 cents per DVD backup.  That's really
> not ridiculous.
>
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