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RE: Re: Networked NAS Drives for Serving DVDs?


  • Subject: RE: Re: Networked NAS Drives for Serving DVDs?
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 01:02:16 -0000

> I think i'll stick with ISO format if i can, it's so quick to rip
> these and that's more important to me than the disk space i think

I use CloneDVD & AnyDVD and rip my DVDs to VIDEO_TS folders and *.IFO,
*.VOB
and *.BUP files...

> Phil, do you use a particular firewire drive make with the mac mini
> please?

I use some 8 bay firewire to IDE cases that I got from a company called
SpecialTech but their website appears offline at the moment - I hope they
haven't gone titsup.com because they were *BLOODY* nice people to deal
with!

> I assume the drive gets formatted in a way that allows > 4gb files?

Just a standard MacOS HFS journaled format...

> I know nothing about macs, so it's all new to me!

Lovely things and the firewire support for hard discs on them just works -
unlike Windows and Linux!

Phil




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