Just curious. Being as old as I am, I've had some time to collect a lot of records and CDs. Of course, I've converted them all to digital format on my computer for the sake of convenience. The extent of my library is getting quite large, and I find it interesting and impressive that what completely fills an entire closet in the guest room can be contained on a single hard drive.
I'm wondering... for those of you out there who have noticed the amount of gigabytes necessary to store all of your music, would you mind disclosing how many songs, albums, and bytes it takes to hold your collection?
I'm wondering... for those of you out there who have noticed the amount of gigabytes necessary to store all of your music, would you mind disclosing how many songs, albums, and bytes it takes to hold your collection?
Just over 1Tb, mostly lossless FLAC, ~500 different rock/pop artists, only full CDs ~6-7 CDs/band avg but difficult to check exactly. All NAS backed up. Most original CDs were bought 2nd hand and now stored away due to lack of space. Classical collection is much smaller.
15-20,000 Records I would guess. About the same number of CDs. Thousands of DVD and blu-rays. 50TB media server.
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I'm just not worthy. About 1100 LPs and 4600 Albums on the server (1.3TB). In my defense I have no room for any more vinyl at the moment, which is a shame as there are some great deals on ebay for Job lots. One day...
As an aside, the HP microserver that I am using as a NAS and player is the best £120 I have spend on musical enjoyment and domestic harmony in a long time.
As an aside, the HP microserver that I am using as a NAS and player is the best £120 I have spend on musical enjoyment and domestic harmony in a long time.
Never counted. About 25-30 linear feet of vinyl. Haven't even dented it converting to digital.
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About 2TB so far, but my wife isn't finished her ripping project, and we also think that there's still some unopened boxes of CDs from our last two moves.
I really hope you have backed up that hard drive! The larger and faster the drive the greater the failure rate.
Google and Wiki are your friends. Drives get more reliable as experience grows, but long term storage drives run at lower speeds and have larger write areas. Having looked, no they are not.
Google uses special 3600 RPM drives for their storage and these are custom made. Bit density I thought was a no brainer. Currently the techniques to increase bit density are running into demagnetization limits. Since none of this seems to be web chatter it just may be the guys I lunch with every so often are leaking what may be secret sauce.
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So you have no statistics? You are just going on a gut feel or what man-in-pub(tm) told you?
For A NAS for music slow drives are fine and as you can see https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/ reliability is good for 2-4TB sizes if you pick the right ones.
For A NAS for music slow drives are fine and as you can see https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/ reliability is good for 2-4TB sizes if you pick the right ones.
Nah, I just hang ever so often with folks who are in the business. But you certainly can store your stuff unbacked up on the largest fastest drive you can find.
fast drives are daft for NAS use as I said. RAID is fairly pointless too. Only decent backup is off site at a friends/work. BUT compared to 20 years ago consumer grade drives are seriously good on reliability stakes. But we all knew that.
I have almost 3TB (flac, wav, ape, mp3, mp4, some dff, dsd64, dsd128 and varios bitrate hi-res recordings) onto an 4TB Seagate external HDD, with backup at three 5400rpm 1TB "internal" HD. Having lost some recordings when "some" HDD crashed time ago I'm always recommend back-up digital archives in general. (sorry about poor English)
I would never let my music get larger than that which I can listen to in one year, if you do, you are not a music fan but a hoarder.
Based on what? Just because you are limiting your horizons doesn't mean you should tar the rest of us as hoarders.
I guess it depends on if you plan to only live one more year... Me? I plan to live many many more years, and I want to have plenty of new and interesting music to listen to.
Too much is never enough when it comes to the arts.
Too much is never enough when it comes to the arts.
I admit on this particular subject I am a disgrace. my only beef with this hobby is that I can't seem to get past building stuff to commit time to downloading and organizing a decent music selection; (I have a Synology NAS but the folders are so poorly populated it is not worth the mention 
). I have been asking my family to lend me a hand here but to no avail (kids listen to different stuff so they couldn't care less, and wife is digital averse). so it's back to me and once I get to that stage it is going to take me forever to look it all up and download.
>>btw I always thought that in such a small community like this one, sort of a closed club, we should be able to organize small scale exchanges? I'm sorry in my case I could only do PP in the way of "exchange". I listen to a lot of female vocals (think Norah Jones, Beth Hart, Rebecca Ferguson, Halie Loren etc.), jazz, pop to rock (think "Live from Daryl's House" series), broadway-style music, popular classical (think Andre Rieu) and some choral pieces from well known operas, etc.
if one of you guys with free time and a gold mine collection at home are interested?, PM me for a full list and maybe we can come up with some arrangement? call it a DIYaudio solidarity club 😉
). I have been asking my family to lend me a hand here but to no avail (kids listen to different stuff so they couldn't care less, and wife is digital averse). so it's back to me and once I get to that stage it is going to take me forever to look it all up and download.>>btw I always thought that in such a small community like this one, sort of a closed club, we should be able to organize small scale exchanges? I'm sorry in my case I could only do PP in the way of "exchange". I listen to a lot of female vocals (think Norah Jones, Beth Hart, Rebecca Ferguson, Halie Loren etc.), jazz, pop to rock (think "Live from Daryl's House" series), broadway-style music, popular classical (think Andre Rieu) and some choral pieces from well known operas, etc.
if one of you guys with free time and a gold mine collection at home are interested?, PM me for a full list and maybe we can come up with some arrangement? call it a DIYaudio solidarity club 😉
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