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| From | "Steve" <toddfan@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: Here a byte, there a bite.... |
| Date | Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:57:14 -0600 |
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I'll probably be "ok"...as I'm not planning to put my hard drive into the
way of an earthquake or fire......
Seriously, I love vinyl as much as anyone...and I also dig CD's, but for
ease of listening at the push of a button, nothing can beat the convenience
of having your music digitized (of course, I am ignoring the audiophile
arguments, I'm just speaking to convenience) and if you digitize at a nice
high bit rate, the sound quality is pretty good. With either a ROKU or a
TiVo or several other methods, you can listen on your regular stereo system,
with or without wires.....and many new receivers come with their own
networking tools.
I don't understand the big aversion to having to have a backup disk or two?
I've got a terabyte disc pretty much filled with music, and I've got a
backup terabyte disk, also filled with the same music...well, not exactly,
but I keep it updated on a regular basis (losing five or six newer
recordings is much more palatable than losing an entire collection). One is
at home, the other is at work...if one of them starts acting fussy, or
outright fails, then I would immediately create another backup on a fresh
new drive off of the other copy.. I figure the likelihood of BOTH failing
at the exact same time to be about as likely as that of an earthquake, fire
or tornado. And if that WERE to happen, then I guess I would deal with it
the same way as I would with the loss of the physical copies....shit
happens, you get over it and move on.
Regards,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Jaimie Vernon
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:43 AM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Here a byte, there a bite....
Lee 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.
The apocalypse is at hand, dear music lovers. Never thought I'd see the day
when THIS geek speak would be a necessity in relation to MUSIC. For the
better part of 50 years the ONLY conversation about storing one's music
collection dealt with how many shelves you needed (and where). In the last 5
years we not only concern ourselves with storing our music, but the fear of
LOSING it.
How many people do you know who've lost music collections in fires and
earthquakes? How many people do you know who've lost music collections on
hard drives?
I'll take my chances with the fires and earthquakes, thank you very much.
There's a greater chance I'll still have my music collection in 5 years if
they're NOT on hard drives.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
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