On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 5 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...
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