[Matt @ Dec 2nd 2006 2:01PM]

He isn't far off, I certainly don't blame him for the comment. I bought a 500 gig drive just so I could store all the TV shows and movies I download. Hell, I've watched all of them already, I should throw them out, but I keep them for posterity.

[Ratchet the Lombax @ Dec 2nd 2006 2:33PM]

Me too I got an external 500gb hard drive that has tons of anime and tv shows on it. It is not full yet but when it does fill up I will probably get another one to replace it since it is easier for me to do that than to burn them to dvds. DVDs can get damaged or misplaced very easy.

[White_Pheonix @ Aug 26th 2007 6:41PM]

DVDs are more reliable than an old hard drive. After all, if you lose one, that's just 4 gigs gone (or 8, if you've got a burner that can handle dual layer DVDs), and that takes two days or less to retrieve, if you can download the content at more than 100 KB/s. On the other hand, if your 500GB HD kicks the bucket, you've got 500GB of lost content, which could take a very long time to retrieve, especially if you don't know everything that was on it (in which case you might never get everything back).

RAID seems to be the way to go. After all, the chance of both drives (assuming that they are different models, and not stored in an area that's too hot, or damp) dieing in the same week is very low, and if they die even a week apart, there's enough time to get another drive and mirror all the content over between the first drive and the second drive dieing.