How To Store Internal Hard Drives?

mike writes "I have been ripping all my movies and TV shows for easy viewing through a media PC. Because I would rather not rip everything again I'm looking for a simple backup solution. I'm considering a hard drive dock and several internal hard drives to use as 'disks' to back things up every once in a while but I don't know what the best way to store internal drives would be in the meantime. Could they sit together in any empty box and be OK, or would a number of externals be worth the slightly higher cost with fewer worries about storing them in the meantime?"

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on a related note...

[Anonymous Coward]

Could someone tell me how in the world you rip your movies without getting the video/audio time sync problem? Every time I do it, no matter which ripping application I use, no matter which computer I use, I ALWAYS get the same problem where the video and audio are in sync at the beginning, and by the end of a 2 hour film, they are out of sync by 10 or more seconds. It makes NO sense! It's not an "offset" issue. This is perplexing since I don't know how the audio/video can be fully in sync when I watch the DVD, but the duration lengths are DIFFERENT after ripping. It seems the video is always longer. It almost seems like a "scaling" issue. I suspect there's something inside the DVD player that "corrects" this realtime.

So, how do I rip CORRECTLY?!

Am I going to have to rip/demux/stretch audio/fuse back together EVERY time?! I can't even find a good audio "stretching" app either.

This is... irritating to say the least.

Re:Why not store them Internally?

[commodore64_love]

Me neither. Mainly because the OP's question doesn't make any sense. Consider his opening sentence: "I have been ripping all my movies and TV shows for easy viewing through a media PC"

If that's true, then he already has backups. He has the original DVDs. Those are his backups if the PC HDD dies. That's how I operate, storing-away my DVDs in a safe secure place, and the only time I backup my TV shows is when I've stolen.....er, downloaded them off the net. Otherwise the original DVDs are my primary backup.