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| From | Ronald Sanchez - Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com> |
| Subject | Re: Digital storage; was cd storage recommendation |
| Date | Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:25:43 -0700 |
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none of this sounds as much fun as sitting around, spinning 45s, and
looking at album covers. If you remember I was writing about music
storage last summer, some new album crates!
I don't know what to think about long term digital storage. I have a few
album projects that are digi only. They are all on a couple of drives,
and occasional DVD back ups. I don't trust any of those that much. But
some tape formulas fell apart too. I'll stick with lps and cds for now.
Part of my music collecting is the thrill of the hunt. I can understand
that most people just don't have the space or desire to own as much junk
as so of us do. I don't plan to mover ever again, so I don't have those
sorts of concerns.
I have a pal who managed to accidentally erase a huge music collection.
I think when the menu popped up and said "do you really want to erase
this drive' he pressed the yes button. I think it took his huge porn
collection too. Now he's got massive storage and backups.
I was pretty surprised to see how cheap a TB drive is now. My only
concern is the time required to optimize a drive, repair it, or back it
up. And if it goes, and you haven't backed up your multi TB storage,
ouch. At my last job, a couple of the coworkers and the boss had drive
failures, and had no back ups. We had a server they could save their
stuff to, but did they? No! If you are going to depend on digital
storage, you had better have a very good backup routine.
I've only had a couple of drives crash, and nothing recently. I run
maintenance routines on both of my Macs and all the out board drives
regularly. It always seemed a little more complicated with a PC at work.
rs
Lee Elliott wrote:
>Standard safety - for every external drive you buy - buy 2 more for
>backups. Rotate one of them off site to another location occasionally.
>
>I would recommend backing up manually - things can happen to trash your main
>drive - then an automated backup process copies the trashed version over -
>so now you have 2 trashed copies! the third off site drive helps here as
>well.
>
>You can get 3 terabyte external drives for less than $500.
>
>I would never consider any kind of RAID setup on it's own as being backed
>up. They are much too prone to failure.
>
>2 terabyte 3.5 inch drives were released/announced by Western Digital and
>Seagate in the last week. With the new sizes - I wouldn't even bother
>compressing anymore. Movies or music.
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>Lee
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Ronald Sanchez
Director Of A&R
Career Records <http://www.careerrecords.com>
Donovan's Brain <http://www.donovans-brain.net>
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