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Waiting for a user-friendly way to copy my SACD's while maintaining the sonic benefits of those DSD files. I've read Ed Meitner will soon have a dac that will optimize this but Ed's components are out of my budget. Anyone advice as to what is evolving now/soon in computer audio world as to copying SACD's to hard drive system (one not involving PS3 and mytek dac)? One day I hope to have all my SACD/CD files copied to a hard drive and jump for joy eliminating disc drive/transport and SACD/CD's from my system altogether.
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> One day I hope to have all my SACD/CD files copied to a hard drive and jump for joy <
Sure... commercial CD's from the eighties (and more contemorary SACD's) are starting to evidence "pit rot", and LP's have scratches, yet they remain in a tangible, physical form (guess with the CD's/SACD's one has to copy them over to another digital/disc-based - or tape - format.
You really wanna' trust your valuable sound to a magnetic disc-based format (you obviously never "lost" a hard drive), or a private entity "cloud"???
Just wondering...
"..you obviously never "lost" a hard drive"
Just over sixty and I've had three hard disc failures over my years with notebooks/desk tops. I lost many files with one failure and learned from that experience to always backup files I want to save. My number one favorite format was reel tape played on my long gone Revox reel-to-reel. My two pricey turntables and large numbers of vinyl records come in at number two, but they too are long gone. Digital done well is so much more convenient and space saving giving up little in sound quality.
"Just over sixty and I've had three hard disc failures over my years with notebooks/desk tops. I lost many files with one failure and learned from that experience to always backup files I want to save."
Thank you for your reply, nairb!
So you have had such misfortune... I guess that's the reluctance for me: having one more category and quantity of digital information that requires redundancy (already dealing with back-ups of 1) video, 2) photos, and 3) general computer data/drive partitions).
p.s. just a heads-up/FYI: don't trust your data to WD's line of "Essential" externals (My Book) as they exhibit MANDATORY hardware encryption (lots of horror stories over at their forums) and, if the controller board dies or the fragile USB connector breaks (the latter all too common), you'll have to pursue extraordinary measures to rescue your music files - I just "ebay'd" an extra PCB I had to a fellow who was successful in resuscitating his 3TB drive: first time I've had feedback as a "life saver" :)
"So you have had such misfortune..."
Hard drive failures are as certain as day following night. Nothing that can be called "misfortune" unless three fail at the same time. It would take the failure of four separate drives before I would lose data.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Do you do regular backups on your computer's contents?
Bill
"Do you do regular backups on your computer's contents?"
Yes, Bill, and a little on the fanatical side, too.
I have originals and then, depending on importance, two or three copies for redundancy on 1.5, 2 and 3 terabyte drives.
Like nairb, I suffered I drive failure some years back ("only" about 60gb on a 120gb drive) and never want to deal with that kind of loss again...
As I just responded to the original poster earlier in the thread, "I guess that's the reluctance for me: having one more category and quantity of digital information that requires redundancy (already dealing with back-ups of 1) video, 2) photos, and 3) general computer data/drive partitions)."
Backup got easier for me when ALL my data fit on one USB drive. I recently ran out of room on 1.5 TB drives and have moved up to a 2 TB drive for one generation and a 3 TB drive for the other generation.
However, even multiple USB drives are far nicer and cheaper than cartridge tape. Feeding floppies to back up up a hard drive was even worse.
> I suffered I drive failure some years back
My personal PC was stolen by a burglar over 10 years ago. I had a recent backup.
Bill
"However, even multiple USB drives are far nicer and cheaper than cartridge tape. Feeding floppies to back up up a hard drive was even worse."
Yep, I remember my Verbatim tapes slogging away for hours on end just for a few gb's well over a decade ago... and then it was time for the verification cycle.
"I had a recent backup."
This reminds me of the signature one of the members of the forums at hddguru dot com uses to conclude their posts:
"A backup a day keeps the DR away." (cute interplay between "Dr." and "Data Recovery")
p.s. I hope those externals are not WD Essential drives with the mandatory hardware encryption (see my previous post in this thread).
> p.s. I hope those externals are not WD Essential drives
> with the mandatory hardware encryption (see my previous post in this thread).
No. Thanks for the warning.
I like the WD Elements drives. Sometimes being a cheap consumer produces better results. The Elements drives have no shovelware and no features I don't want. I used a pair of 1.5 TB Elements drives for quite a while. I use a 2 TB Elements drive now.
However, I recently bought a 3TB USB3 Seagate drive. Prices for the 3 TB Elements drives are still sky high, they are USB 2.0 and I wonder about the Thailand production. So far, so good for the Seagate drive.
My wife was responsible for the disaster recovery function in her job. Restoring data and bringing the mainframe up always exposed glitches.
No backup strategy can be trusted until you've done a successful restoration.
Bill
1. Assuming music wanted will be available on Hi-Rez downloads now or in future (of course naive to think a-l-l the music wanted will be available in Hi-Rez downloads).
2. Would love a service that copied our SACD's in native file resolution for a fee (eliminating need to purchase gear to accomplish this at home). Big savings.
3. The longer we wait, the less we'll be able to sell (most) our SACD's for.
4. The thought of buying Hi-Rez downloads of music already owned on SACD's makes me sick. LP> tape> CD> SACD> LP(again)> computer files> future format before we're pushing daisies?
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