PhilNYC Wrote: > It's been a while since I actually worked with a hard drive (beyond just > using it), but if things haven't changed, one thing to consider is that > you shouldn't load up your hard drive all the way to its full capacity. > It has to do with the hard drive becoming less efficient when the > entire drive is full....at most, you should use 80% of the drive's > usable capacity...
This depends on the OS and the usage of the disk. If you only have your music on that disk, I think you can fill up to 98-99% without worrying. I have now 454GB of music which is 1366 albums (18509 songs), all in FLAC - best quality. So you should fit around 850 albums on that disk with FLAC. Finally, I must agree with the others that FLAC is the way to go. Sensible compression, you get tags you need, and you have error correction. All important issues when you have a lot of music. -- tomsi42 SqueezeBox2, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, DynaBel Exact. I can get used to this ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomsi42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18552 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
