club411 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 My Media RAID is a Pain to keep up and running - plus storing BD's on them takes up too much space. Thinking of taking a step back and getting The BD changer.Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 It works well, but it is expensive and slow to load movies. It will take 60-70 seconds for each movie to start which will seem like an eternity if you are used to digital media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 I like mine, but yes, it is a bit slow on loading discs.Not just loading the disc, but then you get the FBI warning, etc., which you don't get on 'ripped' discs.Still think it's worth it for actual discs.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Pros & cons. The FBI warning is a PITA and so is the inability to step-over it or even stop some discs until it has passed. Also, my rack is giant enough and this thing is taking-up valuable space.On the otherhand, platter HDDs are heading the way of the tube TV and you'll be looking at transferring material to SSD or to another set of HDDs upon failure. Have you ever gone through a catastophic loss of personal property on a failed RAID 0? A few thousand bucks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdoc Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 I have the same issue. The ripped blue rays take up a ton of space. I went to the changer and it works well with C4 (although a little slow loading). I just rip my regular DVDs to my RAID and use the changer for Blue rays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srhamy Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 I sold mine.> slow to load as stated before> a huge rack space killer, 6U!!!!!> The up-conversion of regular DVD content looked choppy to me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonFromCanada Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Love mine, but then I split my media into several areas...Disc based for kids DVDs and BR content (seems useless to take valuable HDD space for a kids disc)I use an AppleTV modded with a 320GB HDD for digital media. I use my iMac extensively to rip my favourite DVDs and other digital content. I also use my PS3 for netflix movies.Nothing like true BluRay for quality, nothing like HDD based media for speed.I've had no issues with my BDP-CX7000ES and it has worked flawlessly for several months, except for one disk that had wouldn't load and had to be cleaned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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