> Just out of interest, what type/size hard drive do you use to store 5300 > CDs in FLAC? What backup do you do?
I'm probably not a good example of the typical user. I certainly was a bit more particular than the person who wrote the NYT article. I ended up building my own music server with 6 x 400GB SATA drives in a RAID5 configuration. '*_This_is_a_post_I_wrote_*' (http://www.stateofgrace.net/images/server01.html) when I was planning out the project, and '*_here_*' (http://www.stateofgrace.net/images/server02.html) is what I ended up building. Both posts were made in December of 2005, and I had the server built around February of 2006. The decision to have RAID5 redundancy had paid off at least once over the past two years, as I had an electrical problem that took out one of the drives in the array a few months back. With the amount of time I spent ripping discs, scanning cover art and tagging each disc, I wanted to make sure I would never have to do it over. For backup purposes, I purchased an external '_Quantum_LTO_3_Ultrium_400/800GB_tape_drive_' (http://www.quantum.com/ServiceandSupport/SoftwareandDocumentationDownloads/LTO-3Half-Height/Index.aspx#Specifications). I made my first backup just a few weeks ago. It took four tapes (obviously FLAC files don't compress very well since they are already compressed to some degree), and they are now sitting in a safety deposit box offsite. The backup has all the tracks, the MediaMonkey database, and all the cover art. As I rip new discs, I am backing them up to an external USB drive connected to the music server until I hit another 400GB, and then I'll make another tape backup of the new music. > How many individual songs/tracks do you have? I currently have 46,745 FLAC files which use 1.41 terabytes of hard drive space. This represents 5,529 CDs. Music is by far my biggest hobby, so it didn't bother me to spend some decent money on a good setup. I am very happy with the Squeezebox3/MediaMonkey solution. As I said before, it's so much easier to listen to music now. Cheers, Blake -- blakeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blakeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1858 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43724 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
