In Reply to: Looking at my 800+ CDs and thinking of a Mac Mini posted by creativepart on March 19, 2007 at 16:09:38:
800+ cd's will fill a 250gig drive in apple lossless. Compression is only about 50%.I did this recently buy buying a used G3 ibook for $250 (check www.geeks.com) and two external 250gig drives. This works great with OS10.3 and iTunes 6 for a dedicated music jukebox.
After spending over 100 hours ripping my 750 or so CD's to one drive, I did not want to go through it again so I got the second drive for backup. The second drive is nice and safe in a drawer at my parents house.Cheers
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Follow Ups
- 80 gig is not nearly enough - vettracer 17:43:42 03/20/07 (8)
- Warning: hard drives may not be reliable as a backup mechanism - Christine Tham 19:34:28 03/20/07 (7)
- Re: Warning: hard drives may not be reliable as a backup mechanism - morricab 02:28:18 04/04/07 (0)
- You should warn the tens of thousands of companies - J.Mac 16:25:27 03/22/07 (3)
- I did - Christine Tham 00:29:30 03/23/07 (2)
- They didn't listen - J.Mac 04:24:44 03/23/07 (1)
- It's easy to say "industry trend" or make up statistics - Christine Tham 15:13:05 03/23/07 (0)
- Okay, ... - vettracer 08:22:53 03/21/07 (0)
- Re: Are you thinking tape or optical media? - navman 07:11:19 03/21/07 (0)