Ripping Entire DVD collection to Harddrive

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Has anyone ripped their entire collection to a external harddrive?

Im trying to downsize my life and i have a okakish size of about 200 movies on dvd that are all pretty important to me. Id like to put them on a big hard drive, prob a couple TB's, but im not sure how to go about it.

Any tips?

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Has anyone ripped their entire collection to a external harddrive?

Im trying to downsize my life and i have a okakish size of about 200 movies on dvd that are all pretty important to me.

Id like to put them on a big hard drive, prob a couple TB's, but im not sure how to go about it.

Any tips?I've ripped some dvds to my hardrive. First of course you need a computer with an optical drive and ripping software. Before you commit to ripping all your DVDs do only a few of them and then watch the digital file to make sure you're happy with the file storage type, compression and encoding that you've chosen. In any kind of big storage project it's real easy to get half way through it and then realize you wish you'd done it differently, I know I have!

Then when you're done make sure and back up your movie collection because hardrives fail and if you store them on something that is solidstate like a SSDrive or a solidstate NAS those store the digital files with an electronic charge and can lose that charge overtime if not used which ruins your work, that also happened to me. But if you power up a solidstate drive from time to time, like every six months or sooner then it will be fine. Still always back up your files.

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The software you need to obtain is DVDFab - https://www.dvdfab.cn/

If the purpose of this digital conversion is to save space in a room, after ripping and backup to an external device like SSD/NAS, post each dvd for sale on classifieds sites.