HW: Alien Autopsy

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 20 Jul 2009, at 08:23 , Steve wrote:
> I had two CDRs of rarities from one of my favorite bands die on me  
> and boy was that distressing.  Hard drive space is cheap these days  
> I'm thinking of taking FLACs of everything irreplaceable and  
> keeping two active copies of it (cross copying between 2 separate  
> computers).  Last time I checked consumer/home backup technology  
> was lagging hard drive space rather badly....


I thought hard drive space _was_ now consumer/home backup technology! :)

All the CDs and other music I had in the UK is crammed losslessly  
onto a little under 680 GB of hard drive, but I just recently got the  
rest of my CDs from the US, and have 2 1TB drives at the top of my  
list of things to get; one for storage, one for backup.  I can get  
them for about 250 USD, which is a small price to pay next to  
replacing all that music.  Sure, a house fire could wipeout my main  
drive and the backup drive, along with the CDs (which are now  
effectively their own backup medium), but then a house fire could  
always have wiped out my CDs or vinyl or whatever.  Putting  
everything lossless on HDs I think makes my whole collection safer  
and more accessible than ever.

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Carl Edlund Anderson
http://www.carlaz.com/