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[FREEMAN100]

Good Stuff then I was sort of right HaHa...sorted then me thinks...Was just thinking what would you have said if someone would have told you 6 years later your work would be needed again to save a misrable soul...lmao

You do relise im gonna have to go search EBAY now for the originals again....Lmfao this time....

[Joe Forster/STA]

You see, I bother neither with original or backed up CD's; I make rips of my games: large RAR archives that need to be uncompressed only, no installation needed. And since DVD's are physically so large but are (relatively) so slow and can contain so little data, they have been archived to a very large hard disk instead. With a USB hard disk rack, this means about half a minute to access ANY game in my collection (from Test Drive in 1987 to STALKER in 2007), whenever I like. How about that for organizing?

[rlsuth]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

........ they have been archived to a very large hard disk instead.

What happens if that harddrive fails?

[caki]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

You see, I bother neither with original or backed up CD's; I make rips of my games: large RAR archives that need to be uncompressed only, no installation needed. And since DVD's are physically so large but are (relatively) so slow and can contain so little data, they have been archived to a very large hard disk instead. With a USB hard disk rack, this means about half a minute to access ANY game in my collection (from Test Drive in 1987 to STALKER in 2007), whenever I like. How about that for organizing?

Do you bother to compress the sounds into mp3 and all that as well? or do you just pack them into rars?

[Joe Forster/STA]

@rlsuth: Ts-ts-ts, I have two hard disks (one at home, another at my work place). Remember: one backup is no backup at all!

@caki: MP3/UHA and other tricks are for packaging warez releases to as small sizes as possible - and, as a side effect, that makes the unpacking VERY long. For me, size doesn't matter (khm ) but unpacking time does so, no, I don't do extra compression steps.

[Phr³³k]

For me, size doesn't matter (khm ) but unpacking time does

yes this is the right attitude dude since hdds getting cheaper all day...
doing it the same way but mostly with(out)minimal compression, just a backup copy-in-a-rar. this speeds up the entire process a lot.

time is money