Right now I'm using a 6TB array and have only ripped around 320 movies and only used a little over 1TB. I'm a little more than 1/2 done, so I'll be able to easily contain all my DVDs including all my TV series episodes. I won't be able to do many of the bluerays though.
The only strange function I found with this program is if there is a physical defect on the disk, the program will not recover gracefully. So you need to let it crash, clean your disk and try again. My program is about 20% faster than the other ones out there, so at least there is a bit of performance benefit.
I've actually shifted away from Media Center. There are two others I'm playing with that are very interesting. 12X suggested this one:
XBMC. I really like this one. It's got a great interface for cover art. I also am maintaining
Plex because it works for both as a windows media app and my Rokus. Streaming to the Rokus around my house is really awesome. But they both are WAAAAY faster than windows media server. At this point, I'm probably going to adopt XBMC.
Actually I'm using windows media +
MyMovies to initially create a database and initially download cover-art. After that, I tweek it with XBMC/Plex for general use.
I have a little dedicated home entertainment PC from
Zotac. I purchased several mouse/keyboard combinations until I found one I really like. It's got great range and the battery life seems to be OK. Another great
Logitech product. I really like their
Unifying interface.
I'm ripping my movies without compression. Although I think MKV looks pretty good, I wanted the transfer to be lossless so I can store the DVDs in the garage once and for all. I may take my images and further compress them with
Handbrake, and use my drive as the master backup so I can hold more. But at this point, the 6TB drive will more than allow for most of my collection.
