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	Woohoo! I finally finished transferring all of my MiniDV tapes over
	to the PC! I have been meaning to do this for some time now and I
	finally got it done! A majority of these tapes are family videos of
	my kids growing up. There are some earlier footage of my travels and
	shows I was able to record. I started working on this at the end of
	December and have been chipping away at it tape by tape, for a total
	of 138 tapes.

	Each of these tapes needed to be transferred to a PC over firewire in
	real-time. I still have my old Windows XP machine with PCI firewire
	card in its 4U rackmounted case, which has had no network connection
	since XP was sunsetted in 2014. Good thing it is still operational
	and I am able to get video extracted from the tapes and transferred
	to other hard disks.

	Speaking of which, a few months ago, my friend Jamilla scored a box
	full of discarded "Apple" hard disks that he gifted me since he knows
	that I play with computers. He works next door to some studio that
	had them in a box marked "free" and their systems were upgraded to
	larger hard disks. The box had 16 disks ranging from 500 GB to 1 TB.
	Just for kicks, I mounted a few and found that they had not been
	wiped. Bad practice. Well, I didn't feel like poking around too
	much so I wiped them and have been using them for backups and
	archives. The Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA external hard drive docking
	station has been very handy for this task.

	The tapes have been transferred in their raw format. One hour of
	footage is roughly 11 GB. I am not really sure of the shelf life of
	these tapes...I keep hearing different guesstimates, but I do know
	that the oldest footage I have goes back to 2001 and the most recent
	is 2013. Since it is now 2021, I think 20 years on the shelf has
	them on borrowed time.

	Here are some numbers:

	MiniDV Transfer Totals:
	MiniDV tapes: 138
	Storage: 1,625 GB
	Footage: 147.73 Hours
	Date of First Tape: 20010106
	Date of Last Tape: 20131209
	Start of transfer: 12/26/2020
	End of transfer: 02/03/2021

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