I'm at the stage where I need to move some of my media to offline storage. Back in the day I would burn to CD and keep a spreadsheet up to date that related disks to titles.

Can anyone recommend something better? I want to put stuff to a HD, add it to the catalog so it records the title and which HD it's on, then put the HD to one side to only be looked at again if I ever needs that title.

Ideally it would tie in with TheMovieDB or something like that, but that's not so important

why not just run the nas 24x7 with raid5 or raid6
ask yourself how much the data is worth to you

if its non replaceable stuff like childrens photos and home videos etc, you'd probably spend $2k on a video camera so why not spend $2k on the storage server where you keep the movies

QNAP 7 or 8 drive unit so you can expand later, it's a bit of an investment but it's piece of mind too

WinCatalog

nat what you could do is backup your nas settings config file
shut it down, remove the drives
archive them and a copy of your config

put new drives in and start filling them up
only problem is you have to swap between configs and arrays each time .. but that's not so bad for long term archive

I use wincatalog lite so can't vouch for the paid/full version but I use it quite successfully to catalog all my various cd's full of random pictures/videos & shit for easy retrieval later when I might need a precious image macro you all know I love so much.

I've never tried to catalog a hard drive with it but I just created a new catalog, stuck a cd in the drive & added it to the catalog. Then every time I make a new random shit cd I just add it to the catalog.

I don't know what this 'movie' folder is because I just have all my discs in the root catalog (never needed anything else), maybe it's part of the full version? Are you using the full or lite?

ok, you're old school. I like the ability to search the contents of offline zip/rar files