BluRay Burning of Anime

[arsh231]

I have looked a lot through Google and have not found a definite method or answer I am in the market for a Blu-ray burner, as i would like to back up the 1.7 TB of anime i have. I just lost a terabyte of anime last week due to drive failure and was quite crushed by it

So i have come to the best community to ask, What bluray burner should i get?, *What software will allow me to burn the anime without losing an ounce of quality( the largest file i currently have is Akira about 22GB) also must allow me to create menus and order chapters if their is non present, How should i got about printing the covers for burned bluray discs?

To sum it up:
I would like to be able to burn the anime without any quality loss and create menus for them.Then place them in bluray cases. I will create the covers for the cases in Photoshop and print them.

Sorry for the grammar and spelling is no that great, English is my second language

[Tiffanys]

I'll just tl;dr my explanation for you and say check this thread: http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=37020.0

Basically, due to the cost of blurays and how long they last, just getting two 2TB HDD's and setting them up in RAID1 (identical copies), and putting them in a NAS unit and you could stream to your home media center or computer would be a much better option.

If you're really absolutely sold on printing Blurays then you need a bluray burner with Lightscribe like I have. I have this one, it was $179

My honest opinion would be to just get something like this, slap two 2TB HDD's in it, and set them up as RAID1. They'll both be identical copies of one another, so if one ever failed on you all you'd have to do is advanced RMA it and plug the new one in and set up a RAID1 with the one that didn't die and it'll make another exact mirror of itself.

[Mistgun_Zero]

Hmm. Wouldn't it better to just get a original release instead of burning them. I did consider the blu-ray option, but later I found that the total cost would be same or greater than buying the original release (for most releases at least). Well that was then and this is now. But the cost of bluray going down is still gonna take time.

[Clannad_92]

Basically, due to the cost of blurays and how long they last, just getting two 2TB HDD's and setting them up in RAID1 (identical copies), and putting them in a NAS unit and you could stream to your home media center or computer would be a much better option.

sorry to butt in but when 2external in RAID mode, it will function as mirror to another one, right? its like we're creating another copy of the content in external 1 in external 2, right?
and if one fail, the file in another ex is not affected...is that right?

so, how to use RAID? is it difficult to set up or difficult to use

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something like i have to format 64GB memcard to FAT32 to use in Galaxy S2 and have FAT32 restriction

[kitamesume]

My honest opinion would be to just get something like this, slap two 2TB HDD's in it, and set them up as RAID1. They'll both be identical copies of one another, so if one ever failed on you all you'd have to do is advanced RMA it and plug the new one in and set up a RAID1 with the one that didn't die and it'll make another exact mirror of itself.

you don't even need to put it in raid1, just have it manually copied to each other with parity checks now and then using CRC comparison.

[FlyinPenguin]

Like others have suggested, you are better off just getting two hard drives and copying a duplicate to each one. If you have an old PC sitting around, now might be a good time to setup a server with some kind of raid.

If you do insist on copying to Bluray, I recommend just burning the files directly to the disc. Don't bother trying to burn them so you can play them back in a hardware player. It is just going to create unnecessary work for you because you are just going to have to re-rip the files again should you want to throw throw them on a device.

[Tiffanys]

If you did want to go the burning route, I'd avoid the releases you have now if they're in normal mkv/mp4/avi formats. Instead you'd want ISO's or the raw Bluray files... you can get that stuff at AsianDVDClub, but uh... they're big. Real big.

I really do suggest just setting up a RAID1 or something similar though.

Basically, due to the cost of blurays and how long they last, just getting two 2TB HDD's and setting them up in RAID1 (identical copies), and putting them in a NAS unit and you could stream to your home media center or computer would be a much better option.

sorry to butt in but when 2external in RAID mode, it will function as mirror to another one, right? its like we're creating another copy of the content in external 1 in external 2, right?
and if one fail, the file in another ex is not affected...is that right?

so, how to use RAID? is it difficult to set up or difficult to use

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something like i have to format 64GB memcard to FAT32 to use in Galaxy S2 and have FAT32 restriction

Essentially, yes. It depends on the type of RAID though, I don't want you to assume all RAID functions like that, but RAID1 does as you described.

As for how to use it and set it up, I think that's a bit beyond the scope of this thread and I'd suggest googling it. It's not hard though, no. You wouldn't want to use FAT32 though, and I've never heard of using RAID in a cellphone... lol

[Freedom Kira]

sorry to butt in but when 2external in RAID mode, it will function as mirror to another one, right? its like we're creating another copy of the content in external 1 in external 2, right?
and if one fail, the file in another ex is not affected...is that right?

so, how to use RAID? is it difficult to set up or difficult to use

(click to show/hide)

something like i have to format 64GB memcard to FAT32 to use in Galaxy S2 and have FAT32 restriction

Generally, you can't (or rather, you shouldn't) put external drives into RAID. Drives in a RAID array must always be connected. It's not at all the same as just copying one entire disk to another, because you must have your RAID controller to read the disks properly. The biggest difference between RAID 1 and just straight-up cloning a disk is that with the second option you can bring one of your disks anywhere, plug it in anywhere, and it will be fine as long as the computer you use supports the filesystem on the disk. You can't do that with RAID 1 unless the target computer has a RAID controller too, and even then it's not really recommended to do that, because that's not what RAID is for.

Formatting to FAT32 has nothing to do with RAID. RAID is a low-level technology that concerns how your data is spread over multiple disks, and provides an interface to read the collection of drives like it was a single disk. FAT32 is a type of filesystem you put on whatever storage device you choose to (though it is not recommended to use FAT32 on a RAID array because of its limitations) and defines how your data is stored in the device, which can be a RAID array, a single hard drive, a USB drive, whatever.

Anyway, @OP, I think what I would want to tell you has already been posted. Blu-ray media is not ideal for data backups - use a second hard drive instead. A hard drive does not deteriorate nearly as quickly as Blu-ray media.

[Tiffanys]

Ah right, yeah. You don't use external drives for RAID's. They're external to your PC itself if you have them in a NAS setup, but they're internal drives. The NAS is essentially just a stripped down server computer.