------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28360 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Re. my lossless music files: - I back them all up to another drive - I don't backup & don't see any point. - I don't backup because I don't have enough disk space - I don't backup & hadn't considered a drive failure ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lossless files take up a lot of space. Hard drives are cheap though, so I've just bought myself a 400GB drive. This will be more than enough to hold all my music as FLAC and transcoded MP3 versions (car player & iPod) for the next few years. Something else to consider though is backups. Up until now I've used a network attached 80GB hard drive to do automatic backups of my MP3s to. This won't be large enough to backup my FLACs to, so I'm wondering if I should shell out on another big drive. Pretty much all my music is ripped from my own CDs, so I realise that I could recover from a drive failure by re-ripping. I guess it is just a case of weighing up the likelihood of a drive failure, the cost of another drive, and the time & hassle of ripping everything again. What does everyone else do? -- SadGamerGeek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SadGamerGeek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6145 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28360 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
