quoted 16 lines I mean, you want to back up your audio in good quality, but you'll> > I mean, you want to back up your audio in good quality, but you'll
> > basically need half as many CD-Rs to store as many CDs as you own (50%
> > compression = ~2 albums per disc, right?). so physical storage space
> > becomes a big concern. If you have a giant HD, great, but if your HD
> > gets trashed, you have to rip & encode them all again.
>
> Oh, another thing.
>
> You know, for less than the cost of all those CDRs, you could also
> probably get 3 100GB hard drives and do a software level 5 RAID (giving
> you 300GB... enough for about 1200 average-sized CDs at 50% compression),
> so that even if one drive goes bad, you don't lose any data, and you can
> just replace it.
>
> Maybe too much effort for you, but something to consider if you're serious
> about making high-quality backups...
No, you'd only have 200 gigs, since the equivalent of one of the drives goes
to parity.
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