drmatt wrote: 
> Yeah it takes about six hours or so to load the 40GB of
> (compressed)music I carry on my phone. This is over WiFi. I guess I
> could plug it in and do it more quickly, but frankly I almost never do
> this - just updates when I add new stuff or remove stuff.
> 
> This aspect is not trivial, but for the full res flac material inside my
> network for playback on squeezeboxes it is trivial. Want a disk mirror?
> 150MB/s, takes a few hours to seed the whole archive. Big deal, my
> server has nothing else to do...


You may find this hard to believe, but a professional engineer waiting
for excessively large files to transfer, copy and back up makes him a
lot more impatient than it does a home hobbyist. 

Especially true for live recording, which is often done while enslaved
to a clock that is not on your schedule, it is on its own.


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