Other Clone, copy or Main Movie?

[joeclarke]

I have to admit I don't know which process is the "best practise".

Basically, I'm just backing up Blu-rays and DVDs I own onto my movie server. My objectives are safety (no scratched or damaged disks) and ease of use (no need to keep a massive pile of disks close at hand).

I'm running a 15TB Drobo behind my movie server and memory is not generally a problem.

I want the best possible quality of audio and video resident on my server so I have not been compressing files at all and always create ISOs that I load onto the DVD Virtual Drive to play using Power DVD.

Does it matter whether I use clone, copy or main movie in terms of output quality? I understand that using main movie eliminates all the "extras", but I really prefer to have these available on my server.

Thanks for any remarks.

[maineman]

No, no difference in quality with Clone vs. Full Disc vs. Main Movie since there's no compression.
The only potential problems I foresee are with navigation, accessing BD menus and such, but it sounds like you're good with this.

Despite having 15 TB, BD files will chew it up.
I have 10 TB (2TB x 5) myself and my media server is starting to fill up with main movie mode only.
But hey, you should have it the way you want