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In Reply to: RE: HD problem posted by jazz1 on September 23, 2015 at 22:28:14
Were you able to try another power supply on the 'bad' HDD, just to eliminate the power supply as a possible problem?
I suppose PC audio can be stressful but what you experienced was a HDD issue that can happen even in a dedicated commercial music server or a NAS setup for streaming. In other words, HDD problems are not unique to "PC audio".
I'm not familiar with Path Too Long Pro but I believe Windows Explorer is stuck with a path limit of 255 inclusive of the file name, even though Windows itself may have gone beyond this limit through new APIs. I guess Path Too Long Pro somehow bypasses that limit. Mac OS X has a path limit of 1024 + 255 characters for the file name.
Hope you get it fixed.
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I was able to try another power supply, but no luck
Looks like I lost +_ 15 % of my music. (+_ 400 cd's)
I always been a little nervous about digital and computer audio.
I still have photo prints taken 60 years ago by my grand parents and I doubt that with digital media one would keep photos for that long
as the formats keep changing and mistakes do happen.
But I love the convenience of PC audio. Just need to take lots of precautions. I am looking forward to streaming as then there is no worry about loss of files.
I agree. Digital photos are a big problem unless you keep a constant eye on updating, sorting, and backing up all those files.... or keeping a bunch of them on a "cloud service"... but then you have to worry about making sure your successors have access to them.Unless I print the photos and insert them into a physical album.... or use one of those services like Shutterfly to create a photo album book, I tend to lose track of the pictures. I don't lose the pictures, I just don't do a great job of categorizing them for easy retrieval. The best photos go into physical photo books at my house.
I'm not too concerned about my music library. I do keep a couple backups of everything but if a disaster strikes, I still have all my physical CD media and vinyl records to fall back on. But if we're faced with a real disaster, we probably have more important things to worry about anyway! Like food, water, shelter, etc.
Edits: 09/24/15
I do regret selling +_ 50% of my cd's but at the time I felt that my system was pretty safe doing regular back ups and I needed the space
3000 cd's take lots of space.
I also got a good price for them which actually covered part of the cost
of my new amp.
I should have done back up at more regular intervals as lately I added
lots of music.
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