dick;132479 Wrote: > The way I look at it now that I've ripped all my music is that the > original CDs are my backup. Yeah, but..... (know in Minnesota as a "yebuttal") think of the time you spent ripping the CDs, dealing with tags, album art, etc. Add to that the possibility of CD loss/damage/deterioration in storage, and I'd say that backing your music library up to another hard drive looks mighty cost-effective.
For less than $100 you can get an external USB hard drive that will accommodate your entire collection plus backup lots of your other data. Say it took you 20 hours to rip 240 CDs, which at 5 minutes per CD is probably an underestimate. Is your time worth at least $5/hour? On the other hand, I suppose that if you ripped to a lossy format then the value of the disk backup is considerably diminished. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26865 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
