mattpower3000
New Member
Hi, i am new to the board, so a little about me first, im 24 and work in south kensington as a finance director for a small plc, i live in a penthouse apartment, which is all well and good but i have very limited space, which is whyi only run a notebook pc, plus i go away alot to the states and having a lappy means i can take all my work (ahem and football manager, grand prix 4...) etc with me. I have recently upgraded and bought a new one, my old thinpad had started to see better days.
The spec is a 1.86ghz centrino sonamata 533mhz with 1gb ram 533mhz, 60gb 7200rpm hdd, nvidia 66go, dvd-rw running xp pro so its got a little bit of power behind it. Anyway since moving from my parents house 3 years ago, i have started a small dvd collection, around 50 or so films. Being a big film buff and music buff i have spents thousands on home cinema and hi-fi, from £3000 denon amplifiers and a b&w 7.1 surround system to my 2 ruark speaker naim pre and power amp hi-fi system. My dilema is however that i am needed over in LA for 3 months, because i dont want to take any of my dvds with me in case they get lost or damaged etc, i have had the idea that i could rip them all to my laptop. This left me with 2 options, either buy 1 or 2 external hard drives which would be quite costly, or maybe buy a hard drive caddy, a good one, i don't mind paying extra for good quality, any ideas? And then installing either a seagtate 400gb, running through the 4 pin firewire port on my laptop. What i'm unsure of is how reliable would this system be? Would it be easy to eject from windows xp? Another query would it be possible to get a caddy that could hold 2 or more Hard Drives then maybe 2 or 3 200gb Hard drives would do the trick? I also have around 50gb of mp3's that need to be stored somewhere as well. Does anyone know of any good ripping software, even ones that can pass the disks containing copyright protection? I hope I havent lost anyone here... I also have 5 usb 2.0's on my laptop in case that may be faster than IEEE?
Any questions, just ask...
Kind Regards
Mattpower
The spec is a 1.86ghz centrino sonamata 533mhz with 1gb ram 533mhz, 60gb 7200rpm hdd, nvidia 66go, dvd-rw running xp pro so its got a little bit of power behind it. Anyway since moving from my parents house 3 years ago, i have started a small dvd collection, around 50 or so films. Being a big film buff and music buff i have spents thousands on home cinema and hi-fi, from £3000 denon amplifiers and a b&w 7.1 surround system to my 2 ruark speaker naim pre and power amp hi-fi system. My dilema is however that i am needed over in LA for 3 months, because i dont want to take any of my dvds with me in case they get lost or damaged etc, i have had the idea that i could rip them all to my laptop. This left me with 2 options, either buy 1 or 2 external hard drives which would be quite costly, or maybe buy a hard drive caddy, a good one, i don't mind paying extra for good quality, any ideas? And then installing either a seagtate 400gb, running through the 4 pin firewire port on my laptop. What i'm unsure of is how reliable would this system be? Would it be easy to eject from windows xp? Another query would it be possible to get a caddy that could hold 2 or more Hard Drives then maybe 2 or 3 200gb Hard drives would do the trick? I also have around 50gb of mp3's that need to be stored somewhere as well. Does anyone know of any good ripping software, even ones that can pass the disks containing copyright protection? I hope I havent lost anyone here... I also have 5 usb 2.0's on my laptop in case that may be faster than IEEE?
Any questions, just ask...
Kind Regards
Mattpower