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Originally Posted by lostboy

For backup - DVD vs external HD - it mainly depends on how many shows you plan to have/keep. If you only download a show or 2 a month, HD would probably be ok. But if you download 20 shows a month, you'll be buying a lot of hard drives.

Personally, I'm always finding something to download. So, I download to HD. Then as I get a chance, I backup to DVD as data and burn a copy to listen to/watch, and delete off. After a little over 2 years with BT, I'm up to 90 backup DVDs and still have 2 full 160 GB HDs (both Western Digital, 1 internal, 1 external).

just 90? lol, after about 2 years I have over 250 dvds just for my audio, and a little over 100 for my backed up dvd videos


thus I took the dvd route, i knew my collection would grow waay to fast and cost too much money to go the dvd route.


Ideally though, I would have all my stuff backed up on dvds, then also have all my stuff on daisy chained ext drives