In Reply to: First step taken on the way to "Linear rips" comparison: ordered external DVD drive. posted by carcass93 on December 15, 2014 at 14:03:17:
...listening to the SAME RIP, simple stored on different locations on the hard drive! Or the same rip on the same place of the hard drive where the single only difference between both files is a file name difference such as file001.wav and file002.wav.
Do modern drives even fragment files at all anymore?
Can fragmentation cause any deleterious effects?
I'm not being facetious here.
Comparing two files to see if they are different is fine, but even two absolutely different files might be somehow different by virtue of just being on different parts of the drive, or, perhaps one is fragmented and the other is not, or, one is simply far more fragmented than the other.
The first step in any good experiment is to ponder all of the variables involved. Failure to do so can result in false corollary between other variables that may or may not even be involved.
Cheers,
Presto
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Follow Ups
- Might I suggest... - Presto 12:15:37 12/16/14 (1)
- Excellent suggestion (nt) - Dave_K 15:19:33 12/17/14 (0)