So since as an audiophile it is about the music foremost, I just thought I would share this story with the members in this forum, who have provided me with patient, helpful advice in the past that has made my digital music experience enjoyable... and safe.
When I got into this, at first I just did the 256k MP3 thing, foolish me taking shortcuts. This forum's experience and patience convinced me otherwise (I thought I'd keep listening to CDs etc). So I went down the FLAC route with dbPowerAMP secure ripping. Ripping a 2,000 CD collection became a job that took over a year! I never wanted to lose that music library, so early on I settled on a mirrored, RAID network drive. Also, I backed it up to a backup drive. Did all the right things. As it happens, over the last 2 weeks I was truly working on compiling and optimizing playlists. My incremental backup is biweekly. You see the scenario coming up. :-) My highly reliable network drive reported a damaged disk. Paranoia sets in. Since my last backup didn't account for my work on playlists, here I am now, panickily mistrusting my remianing drive and yet copying it over to an emergency drive before I start the usual recovery process. Better to have more copies. Then it occurred to me it would be nice to have thought about an online service that just always mirrors my music files. For less than $4 a month mozy.com, owned by EMC, will do that, so I do think what I will do just to make *sure* I never ever have to re-ripstuff again. It will take a long time to copy 400GB over the net, but better extra safe than sorry... Just thought I'd share my scary experience...! -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42358 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
