![]() ![]() That Karen's Backup program looks interesting. I'm curious about what utilities you are all using. ![]() I've been trying to get my collection under control lately, and ready to digitize all of my CDs before selling them. ![]() I hate letting go of any of them, it's almost like a miniature version of hoarding.Īs for how to maintain a digital collection I'm not really sure yet, I have everything burnt to DVD-R but I know that's probably not very reliable, I have a NAS with 2 mirrored drives in which is pretty good, I had one drive fail but put a new one fine without any problems, I should probably have something offsite though, one of my friends got burgled recently and one of the things they took was his external hard drive so he lost everything that wasn't on his PC (which he got back, the cops caught them burgling another house the same night - for some reason he never got the drive back). What did it for me was the increasing number of CDs I've got that are starting to fail - some are visibly brown round the edges but others don't have a mark on them and still skip or fail to rip to WAV/MP3. Yeah this hit me too a few months ago, until then I have rarely sold off any CDs I've bought since I got my first CD player in 1991 unless I really hated them. I've finally hit the fuck it stage and am digitizing and/or otherwise divesting off all my physical media. You should also consider replacing your internal drives and rolling the older units to be used in the external Docking Stations - that way, the best drives are in the most important location - and if you buy a dual docking station and access to another computer, it's very simple to make a "clone" of your current drives onto the new drives (this may take an extended amount of time to transfer, so be sure to consider the cooling needs of these drives as the spin for a couple hours). Also, keep in mind, the Docking Stations receive INTERNAL Hard Drives, which are generally less costly than their external brethren. As for speed, the determining factor for speed in this scenario will the connection method - the slowest method would be USB 2.0, faster would be eSATA (6x USB 2.0), but the fastest would be USB 3.0 (which is ~10x faster than USB 2.0). I swear by Western Digital Caviar Black Drives - they are pricey - Newegg current selling 2GB drive for $170, 4GB for $300. it'd be nice if it was fast, as sin 7200 RPM. What external HDD do you guys recommend?. ![]()
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