From mounted fixtures and disc cabinets to disc binders and wallets, you can store your discs with or without their cases and artwork, depending on what best suits your lifestyle and the space available in your home.
If you already have thousands of discs and the space for your collection is limited, it is best to remove them from their cases and place them in sleeves and portable storage wallets that can hold dozens or even hundreds of discs at a time. You may also recycle shoeboxes and other empty boxes you have at home. There are also some retail items that allow the placement of disc artworks in album-like binders. Simple file storage boxes and drawers may also be used for your storage needs.
There are many types of external storage devices where you can save your movie files for both playback and archiving purposes. It is also wise to keep a separate external hard drive meant for archiving your master video files, so that you have a separate drive for playing your files in your computer or media player.
Popular external storage devices include external hard drives, flash drives, thumb drives, memory cards or even multimedia gadgets and digital media players that can also work as flash drives.
Portable media devices like mobile phones, iPods, MP4 players and PSPs typically accommodate storage and playback of movies. These make it convenient for you to readily watch hundreds of movies without the need for bulky disc collections to carry with you.
Storing movies in portable media devices comes in very handy when traveling and even in emergency presentations and meetings that require showing of video pegs. Most of these devices also make it easy to copy, rip or convert the movies coming from discs or source movie files.
After converting your movies in any of your preferred file formats, you might back up the video files by subscribing to an online file storage service. Such a subscription allows you to back up your computer's files, including your video files, into an online server. If you have your own resource for a physical file server like those used in video production houses, you may also store your movie collection there.