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Question for Live Music Lovers

KDH12KDH12 Posts: 2,096
edited September 2008 in Given To Fly (live)
How do you all store your Flac files so not to fill up your hard drive?
**CUBS GO ALL THE WAY IN......never **
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  • Bangers_n_mashBangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    I store mine on dvd-r. Just in the middle of doing some right now.
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 94,061
    let's see ...

    - i have them all backed up on hard drives
    - i also have them burned on backup dvdrs
    - aswell, make 2 copies of the backup dvdrs

    year's back i would make backup's on cdrs (2 copies)

    got over 5tb's worth of purely pearl jam live music on this powerhouse pc machine!

    it's pretty! :)
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    I divide them into folders on my hard drive (bootlegs, official releases, stuff I've remastered) and then when each folder is full I burn it to a DVD-R and label it clearly.
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    I bought a Drobo. Love it. :)
    http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobo.html
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  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    wolfbear wrote:
    I bought a Drobo. Love it. :)
    http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobo.html
    Just looked at this. It looks excellent. Only problem is that over here it appears to be £349 (about $680)
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,496
    external hard drives
    one for storage
    one for back up

    photos, vids and important documents as well
  • NYbenbenNYbenben Posts: 1,020
    i have 250GB external HD that i keep all of my music on... it is great and keeps it off the laptop. I have about 70GB of various PJ live shows and about 30GB of all else...

    I need more music... lol....
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    I've got a second 750 gb internal drive that I purchased recently. Does the job with lots of room to spare. It was a little over $100, and a breeze to install.
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  • acutejamacutejam Posts: 1,433
    2 250GB External Hard Drives, mirrored, exact copies of one another. I replace one drive every other year -- started this about 4 years ago.

    Just for backup, not everyday use, I plug them in about once a month and back up my iTunes/iPhoto library and my boots (i purge the boots outta iTunes before doing that).

    I'm also involved with archiving for a corporation -- industry standard is that CD/DVDs have a 10-year life span (archival quality discs, stored in binders in climate-controlled file rooms), at which time you should start dupin them. They'll most likely last a LOT longer than that, but that's what the archiving industry does -- everyone's copying all those 1998 CDs right now!

    About 4-5 years ago, during the Playoff/World Series, I had ALL my computers spread out on the living room floor -- MacSE, IIcx, 8500, Performa, iBook Clamshell, iMac DVD/SE, and my lone toshiba laptop.

    Then I started "migrating" forward, some of my storage devices only worked on the MacSE or IIcx -- Bernoulli Drives, ZIP drives, old 1GB SCSI external drives. Kept gathering up and moving folders forward machine-to-machine.

    So all my "essential" data from College/early worklife about '85 to '95 was seriously like 40MBs!!! '95-'05 was prolly 80GBs as digital cameras and mp3s come into play. Now my drives are sitting there with about 200 GBs on 'em.
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 94,061
    wolfbear wrote:
    I bought a Drobo. Love it. :)
    http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobo.html

    must buy 1 .. or 2! :)
  • LeatherMosquitoManLeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    Just a 500GB External Drive. In the process right now of converting all my Official Bootlegs over to it in FLAC.
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  • KDH12KDH12 Posts: 2,096
    ummmm wow people are serious about this, but probably looks like I will be getting an external hard drive :)

    however won't be quite as obsessed as some of you ;)

    however now I am worried about all my CD/DVD's shelf life
    **CUBS GO ALL THE WAY IN......never **
  • DesignVHLDesignVHL Posts: 297
    i have a BIG GIANT Hard drive that i keep having to upgrade to larger and transfer to. I use folders, and I split it up by artist, and show/album. I keep the flacs and converted wavs (for itunes), and sometimes mp3s (ONLY for IPOD and at 192 :) ) all in that same folder....i let itunes keep my folders organized also. I really wish itunes would support FLAC already tho! Unless I missed something...
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  • DesignVHLDesignVHL Posts: 297
    KDH12 wrote:

    however won't be quite as obsessed as some of you ;)

    I have been obsessed since 1991 when pj came into my world. THEY and this community is what got me into trading music in the first place. I mentioned on another thread...that I wonder how many people on this board I have traded cassette tapes and vhs videos with in the 90's!
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  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,072
    demetrios wrote:
    let's see ...

    - i have them all backed up on hard drives
    - i also have them burned on backup dvdrs
    - aswell, make 2 copies of the backup dvdrs

    year's back i would make backup's on cdrs (2 copies)

    got over 5tb's worth of purely pearl jam live music on this powerhouse pc machine!

    it's pretty! :)
    mama mia! ;)
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  • Dan1984Dan1984 Posts: 444
    I have mine on DVDs and CDs.
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