DV tape saved for later editing

I have lots of old DV tapes and would like to find a way to copy them to the computer, then save them on DVD disk, or some other media other than hard disk. Then I would be able to work on them at a later date.
I now have a mini-DV recorder and have to borrow the older DV recorder/player from my son, which means he doesn't have use of his equipment. We live miles apart so I can't just borrow his when I have time to work on a project. I have so many old DV's that it takes time to edit them before I can put to final DVD form? When I download the movies to my iMac it takes a lot of GB's.
What is the CD-ROM storage option? what about archive project? or is there any other solution without spending big bucks?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 160 GB internal and 320 GB external hard drive
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 160 GB internal and 320 GB external hard drive
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I guess I didn't explain myself very well, I'm the one with the mini-DV and my son has the older model. The years worth of tapes I need to get onto computer aren't the mini-DV but the older ones and I have to use his older model. I can see though, that it doesn't make much difference. The only way to get a good product is to keep it in original format until I get ready to do the DVDs.
I guess I can start again to transfer the tapes to an external as that seems to be the best solution. I had tried to do this before--READ the horror story below. I guess the best thing to do is start with a 500GB and get another if I need it. Any recommendations? I am certainly staying away from OWC.
I had bought me a 1GB OWC Mercury AL mirrored set (external) to put all the old movies on so I could return his older model to him. Ran into very bad problems--a real horror story. The the mirroring unit didn't work on the first set (housed in two units) I got and I didn't know enough to know it wasn't working and had transferred a lot of tapes to it before I realized the mirror part didn't work.
They had me send it back and sent a replacement. Well, this one didn't work either. The main unit was configured for 1GB, but the second unit was divided into two 500GB units so that one wouldn't work. Spent lots of time fooling around with it. By this time I had spent a lot of time (about a month) and effort on getting it to work and was extremely frustrated. Decided to send it back and get my money back. What a hassle. Since I was asking for my money back, which didn't seem unreasonable to me considering they'd had my money for a month and I didn't have a product that workd. They wouldn't cover return shipping. Cost me over $40.
The reason I had bought OWC was because I had heard great things about their product.
Can anybody explain why my the 160GB internal and 320GB external are listed 3 times below my message?
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