IS THERE SUCH A PC DEVICE Part 2 ???

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A device that allows access to multiple optical drives??? I remember
seeing something like this years ago. A friend had one that fitted
neatly in his DVD/CD Rom bay and he could put in as many as 6 cd roms
at a time and acces them all. I have been looking for something like
this since this is my dilemma. I have a large collection of movies and
videos in different formats (not all DVD) on many disks. I would like
to see if there is a way to maybe have them all or most in a carousel
and be able to acces movies from the different disks to play on my
media center. Some of the movies are in the Dvix/Xvid format...

Thanks in Advance.
 
Syfo-Dyas said:
A device that allows access to multiple optical drives??? I remember
seeing something like this years ago. A friend had one that fitted
neatly in his DVD/CD Rom bay and he could put in as many as 6 cd roms
at a time and acces them all. I have been looking for something like
this since this is my dilemma. I have a large collection of movies and
videos in different formats (not all DVD) on many disks. I would like
to see if there is a way to maybe have them all or most in a carousel
and be able to acces movies from the different disks to play on my
media center. Some of the movies are in the Dvix/Xvid format...

Thanks in Advance.
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There are such devices, do a search for 'DVD autochangers'
Alternatively, you could convert everything to Divx/Xvid (depends what
quiality you want) and put them all on something like a 1Tb external
drive.
 
Syfo-Dyas said:
A device that allows access to multiple optical drives??? I remember
seeing something like this years ago. A friend had one that fitted
neatly in his DVD/CD Rom bay and he could put in as many as 6 cd roms
at a time and acces them all. I have been looking for something like
this since this is my dilemma. I have a large collection of movies and
videos in different formats (not all DVD) on many disks. I would like
to see if there is a way to maybe have them all or most in a carousel
and be able to acces movies from the different disks to play on my
media center. Some of the movies are in the Dvix/Xvid format...
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Modern motherboards have about 6 or more SATA ports. In the old days,
you could use PCI IDE cards.

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There are such devices, do a search for 'DVD autochangers'
Alternatively, you could convert everything to Divx/Xvid (depends what
quiality you want) and put them all on something like a 1Tb external
drive.
Click to expand...

Thanks I was wondering if there was something specific for this idea.
Oh and they are all already Divx/Xvid mainly. Problem is they are on
several disks. As far as putting them on a 1 TB drive I had thought of
that problem is I would need a good many TB drives to house all of
these and since they are already on DVD-R disks I was just hoping for
something that would allow me to maybe put 100 to 150 disks in them
and be able to read and play all the disks from there. This would
prevent me from having to put all the disks back onto TB drives.
 
Modern motherboards have about 6 or more SATA ports. In the old days,
you could use PCI IDE cards.
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I should have said most of the movies are Dvix/Xvid format. Dont know
about motherboards I just want a device that can hopefully do this. I
have seen carousels but they dont play the disks they just house them
and allow you to get them quickly but not actually play them.
 
Syfo-Dyas said:
Thanks I was wondering if there was something specific for this idea.
Oh and they are all already Divx/Xvid mainly. Problem is they are on
several disks. As far as putting them on a 1 TB drive I had thought of
that problem is I would need a good many TB drives to house all of
these and since they are already on DVD-R disks I was just hoping for
something that would allow me to maybe put 100 to 150 disks in them
and be able to read and play all the disks from there. This would
prevent me from having to put all the disks back onto TB drives.
Click to expand...

There are such devices:
http://sysdoc.doors.ch/PIONEER/02_autochanger_EN.pdf

But I imagine most will use a SCSI interface, so you will need a SCSI
controller card in your PC. And I also imagine such a device is going to
be far from cheap.
Have a search for DVD ROM Autochangers.
 
There are such devices:
http://sysdoc.doors.ch/PIONEER/02_autochanger_EN.pdf

But I imagine most will use a SCSI interface, so you will need a SCSI
controller card in your PC. And I also imagine such a device is going to
be far from cheap.
Have a search for DVD ROM Autochangers.
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Yup you are right they do have them but the cost is really steep and
they are indeed scsi. Sadly the most logical solution probably is to
get the TB drives but that would mean alot of work for me since I have
well over 2 thousand disks with movies.... Believe it or not!!! LOL!
 
Syfo-Dyas said:
Yup you are right they do have them but the cost is really steep and
they are indeed scsi. Sadly the most logical solution probably is to
get the TB drives but that would mean alot of work for me since I have
well over 2 thousand disks with movies.... Believe it or not!!! LOL!
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I've got a fair few myself. I keep most of them all in a big aluminium
DJ box which holds a thousand. I then just wrote a simple Access
database to catalogue them all.
 
A device that allows access to multiple optical drives??? I remember
seeing something like this years ago. A friend had one that fitted
neatly in his DVD/CD Rom bay and he could put in as many as 6 cd roms
at a time and acces them all. I have been looking for something like
this since this is my dilemma. I have a large collection of movies and
videos in different formats (not all DVD) on many disks. I would like
to see if there is a way to maybe have them all or most in a carousel
and be able to acces movies from the different disks to play on my
media center. Some of the movies are in the Dvix/Xvid format...

Thanks in Advance.
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can you store your discs as librarians store the books in a library,
or share all the discs of the community together as a library?
what's more, there should be a way to build a group of men all
enjoying those movies and musics, and store different media data in
different individual storage devices, and use the high speed community
network which is believed to exsit somewhere in the world to share
them or play and enjoy them toghter time to time....
and there should be a kind of scholarship researching how to classify
and store various books in labrian and other general things, and make
index of them, it should also works on you discs, I think....
It must read like nonsense, I think.
 
Z wrote:
time....
and there should be a kind of scholarship researching how to classify
and store various books in labrian and other general things, and make
index of them, it should also works on you discs, I think....
It must read like nonsense, I think.
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Indeed it does.
 
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