2006-07-15 10:11:48 · 11 answers · asked by dnarva14 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Depends on the DVD. Retail DVDs are double layer. While many DVDs do not use the entire DVD, many of the newer ones do.
So 8.5 gigs X 100 = 850 gig harddrive for your upper limit.
So 4.7 gigs X 100 = 470 gig harddrive for your lower limit.
So averaging a 6.6 gigs per disc,
So 6.6 gigs X 100 = 660 gig harddrive you for target drive.
As no one makes a 660 gig harddrive, you'll need to get a 750 gig external. However, drives that large a hugely expensive, $420 for the newegg one below.
If you're downloading mpeg movies that average a bit over 1.5 gigs, you should be fine with a (1.5x100 = 150 gigs) with a 200 gig harddrive.
2006-07-15 10:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by Obvious Child 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dvd = 4.7 gigs approx 5 gigs..
=> 100 X 5 = 500 gigs.
get n internal hard drive n an external case to convert ide to usb
i use it with a 320 gigs hdd...
works awesome..
2006-07-15 10:38:53 · answer #2 · answered by Devrishi S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As each DVD can hold up to 4.7 gig of material, you would need 100x4.7 or 470 gig (plus extra because you won't want your drive 100% full).
2006-07-15 10:14:56 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DVDs contain around 4 gigabytes of data, so if you made an exact copy, you would need a 400GB drive. If you just want the video and compress it, you could use a much smaller drive, but how small would depend on the quality of the compression you use.
2006-07-15 10:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by mathiesm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the compression, format, size of the video, legnth of the video. if they were all compressed down to 2 gigs then a 200 gig external HD. i would go for a 300+ gig hd
2006-07-15 10:16:35 · answer #5 · answered by Journey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're dealing with raw VOB files pulled straight off of the DVDs, you should budget at least 750GB, but you can get that number down any of a number of ways, including compression, deleting unwanted extra audio tracks, trailers, deleted scenes, etc.
2006-07-15 10:17:13 · answer #6 · answered by Fred 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF all the DVDs are full that would be 470 gb, you would be better off to buy 2 smaller ones
2006-07-15 14:51:21 · answer #7 · answered by johnman142 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500 gigs!
It is going to be expensive though!
Just get a regular 500 gig hardrive and download everything you have to it and than use it on any other computer.
2006-07-15 10:15:35 · answer #8 · answered by fwrs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
half a tera byte drive hould do the job, thats around 500Gigs.a dvd is rougly 4.5 gigs,depending on encoding and qualitly
2006-07-15 10:46:03 · answer #9 · answered by pj2024 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can buy the DivX converter. $20US. It will convert to about 10% of original size.
2006-07-15 10:31:14 · answer #10 · answered by Hank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋