Archiving iMovie (DV files) to data DVD-R? Any suggested program?

I have over 200 Digital8 tapes dating back to 1999 that I know will eventually go bad. I am in the process of importing all of them in to iMovie project files, and I'd like to back up the data to DVD-Rs (so I have the pure DV video; NOT exporting them to MPEG-2 DVD video).
It should take three DVD-Rs (4.7GB) to hold 13GB of DV data (about an hour project) but Apple's BACKUP wants 4 DVDs, so maybe it's not using the discs as well as it could be.
Does anyone know of a program designed for this purpose? Itwould be nice to have some kind of solution to archive these files (three DVD-Rs at less than .50 each is still cheaper than a $5 DV tape). It would be very cool to have a way to keep small scaled down preview vids online and then reference the backup when I want to use them.
For what it's worth, I just added ANOTHER 2 terrabyte drive (four 500GB drives) to my existing 2.6 terrabytes. I don't trust hard drives since I've had three Western Digitals goes bad on me (so now I am using Seagates, Maxtors and Hitachis, with each drive cloned to another in case of failure). I just want to get my data backed up.
Any suggestions?

I had too many DVDs going bad after short time - I
don't trust them at all for long time storage.
I'd trust optical media over tape any day of the week. Once a tape gets eaten in a camcorder... And it's far easier and quicker to make a .50 backup of a DVD-R (or set of 3 or 4 of them) than dub off another hour-long Digital8/DV tape at much higher cost.
What I do is, that I double the number of hard
drives. I archive my Videos on one and make a copy to
That's what I've been doing ever since I had my first drive die on me a few years ago. So, I currently have 5.6 terrabytes, but that's not enough to have all my video handy. What i'm trying to do is get my video in a safe place that can't be destroyed by a magnet or eaten by an ancient player, and then have it in a way I can easily make backups. I can send a box of DVD-Rs to someone for safekeeping, but I don't plan on cloning 200 tapes (at a cost of a few bucks each) to send to someone. It's alot of stuff.
disconnect it). I figured that chances of both drives
going bad at the same time is slim.
True. I'll not talk about the 10 days I just spent recovering files when a redundant disk system I had of photos got screwed up and both drives were scrambled (Lesson learned; no more RAID arrays, just remember to sync the drives often.)
external RAID and use it in a configuration that can
recover from single disk failures. This is probably
That's what I am working towards but, as I alluded to, a file system can get screwed up and really hose you. I lost all my podcast master files and all kinds of stuff when a file system error on the RAID I was using took out all copies D'oh.
have to double the number of disks. Advantage of
harddrive is also that you have easy access to all
the movies.
Yes, if you just have a few movies. I'm hoping the 4 500GB drives I have will be enough for this project.

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