How many HD's would it take to fit every simpson episode?

[psy44]

I am going to start an archive of Simpsons Episodes. There are a total of 290 episodes, how much space will I need? What hard drives do you reccomend?

 

[sohcrates]

You would probably only need about 12 gigs or so, assuming the episodes are compressed pretty well (most of the episodes i have are only about 30-40 megs...).

It's really gonna depend on what quality and format their recorded in.

As far as hard drives, if you're seriously only going to store episodes of shows, you could probably just pick up a HUGE cheap 5400 rpm hard drive....

 

[Mikewarrior2]

What format are you going to encode them?



mike

 

[Pariah]

Depends on what exactly you are archiving. The 1st season is available on DVD. Are you going to capture them yourself or just download someone else's? If you're just downloading episodes you can see how large they are and do the math yourself. If you're doing your own encoding, 100-150MB per episode will yield very good results.

 

[BatmanNate]

I have every episode on my FTP server, and the encoding varies greatly. (.avi, .mpeg, .rm, .asf, etc)

All said and done, it occupies a mere 30GB of the array. Worth it for a complete archive of the greatest show of all time.