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Got hundreds of movies and animes in 1080p format Wish i could get the 1080 aswell, i got a crap download cap and download them in X256.mkv Small encoded, got 550gb (over 4000 episodes @ about 55-100mb per episode) 550gb anime 450 of movies 450 series 90gb audiobooks 65 music 250gb installs (games/apps/OS) Come on guys. Don't be shy. Porn counts as well.:P In that case add another 35gb lol (All backed up btw) my case is full, the last hdd i had to get wouldnt fit in so i had to get an external enclosure, once i get a new case n some more hdds, i will get my mates 2tb movies n tv series collection and go to a lan to get some more:) and who deletes their media collection after going thru all the trouble of downloading it?
I always share my collection with friends and will start lanning soon. Read an article the other day that said Australian downloaders have a tendancy to keep large collections of data rather than downloading something, using it and then deleting it. Who deletes their media collection after going thru all the trouble of downloading it? Maybe we keep such large collections because our internet connections are (relatively) slow and expensive compared to other nations.? Meanwhile, HOLY CRAP – WHO HAS 20TB+!!!??? For the record I have about 550GB.
(Edit: on 2 x 1TB internal drives, synchronised daily. I also backup personal documents/photos on an external HDD.) Morgs. My bad, I forgot to put a +1 after your post.
I'm in the same boat as you – after I've sourced something that I like and then downloaded it there's no way I'm going to delete it. But in some other countries where bandwith is higher and upload/download limits are near unlimited, maybe they feel they can just download it again if they want it.? Morgs yeh a mate of mine moved to sweden, he says he can get up to 155mb a sec there, he told me he had a 50mb/s dl speed with like a 200gb cap, im stuck with 1.5mb/s with a 20gb cap:( i will look at getting a 20mb/s, 20gb limit with unlimited offpeak but (aapt) so i will be able to download much more. None of my collection is High def so when i make that jump. I might need some more storage. Pretty much same here.I just took stocktake of my stuff, 140Gb+ of MP3 (and around 120 more CDs yet to rip) Easily 4Tb of full length DVD rip (from my own actual DVD collection, no piracy here lol) because why bother changing discs with the price of storage these days?
When you add e-books and other stuff, add another 500Gb If I was to re-encode in High Def video and lossless audio, probably add another 50% Better buy another NAS T-G. My Server has over 12.5TB of storage 8 x 1TB WD Black drives configured as 4 x 2TB RAID 0 arrays on a Highpoint RR-2320 RAID card.
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150GB Velociraptor Boot drive 500GB Storage drive 640GB Storage drive 2 x 750GB Storage drives 2TB WD Green drive for my collection of 'Other stuff' which is 50% full On my RAID drives I have backed up my entire DVD collection of 1040 DVD's which is mainly all Science Fiction and alot of Series' and Movies are in that collection I can tell you. The other drives have install files, my pictures and documents oh and not forgetting my 50GB of ST3-MOD files which is taking me YEARS to go through.
With me though I'll download a series, like The Big bang theory etc, but when it's available on DVD I go and buy it and add it to my collection, Yeah I'm WEIRD:) Astro. DO you compress though or keep the raw.m2ts file? Thats what i do and the files are normally around 30gb.
All up i think i have around 2tb of movies. The raw data has a limited time on the hard drives, because I will burn them as raw data, but broken into blocks, so that if you need to re-encode you then have to re-import everything into Premiere. I use primarily.avi,.xvid, and dvdr depending on what project I'm working on. I try not to encode with any other format, because when you share movies, you'll get someone complaining how they cannot see or hear anything. I just keep it simple, so that it can be seen by any body without needing to download any special codecs and whatnot. Nope, it was when we first got it in but the teachers cracked it because they couldn't get on Facebook so it was removed in like 3 days.
What a terrible schooling system. That means that kids at your school can be watching porn, playing games, watching YouTube videos and Facebooking while they're meant to be doing school work? In QLD, all inappropriate sites are banned (Youtube, Porn, Facebook, Games) except the teachers have a lighter banning of site lists (they are allowed on Facebook and Youtube etc.). Everything we look up is logged and the IT guys in our school regulary go through it, and if you get caught you doing something you're not meant to be doing, you get busted. Just did a quick breakdown of what I store and how much I store. 750gig storage drive Anime – 11gig Games – 64gig Hi Res movie – 162 gig Regular movie – 24 gig. Music – 9.4gig Doco's – 40gig.
Applications – 4 gig TV shows – 260gig UFC/MMA – 61gig 500 gig external drive Backups – 40gig Anime – 55gig Movie – 96 gig Music videos – 6 gig TV shows – 211 gig 120gig os drive My Documents – 35gig (28 gig of music) Edit: Yeah these are my only storage drives, so I have to continuously delete content that I believe I won't miss, and won't want to watch again. That used to be one of contributing reasons for me to buy a DVD, but nowadays you can also assign full size cover art to movies and make your digital collection look better than the hardcopy Agreed, I ripped my dvd collection to hard drive (a long and boring process:P) and now it is setup running under mediaportal, which automatically downloads fan art and cover art after detecting the movie. It just looks so much nicer and saves the hassle of getting out dvds etc and also keeps the originals in better condition! That said, I cant say im completely innocent when it comes to downloading a few things here and there. You can also assign full size cover art to movies and make your digital collection look better than the hardcopy I do this as well, BTW, as per my replies 2 pages back.
(for those reading, up to 6.5 Tb of movies, slowly making the switch to HiDef) My thinking is that the movie is worth owning, and I prefer the convenience of digital media (for convenience) so I buy the DVD and then rip it for myself to watch and I have original + digital copy.luckily I also have lots of space to store more discs as well as more HDD:) I do like to have the artwork on the media PC also, but usually scan my own covers because the pics from online are not always the best quality IMO T-G. Having my large collection of DVD's backed up to my Computer and shrunk so as to fit onto a single sided DVD. Knowing full well my drives are configured so that I have 4 x 2TB drives comprising of 8 x 1TB drives set up in RAID 0 Pairs. Spitting my collection over the drives and having say 350 DVD rips per drive. Loosing a pair of drives is annoying and luckilly only happened once. To re rip all those DVD's for that drive took me well over a week to do, I can tell you!!! I don't need to back them up because I own the originals anyway.
But as I say the loss of time was annoying though. Knowing full well my drives are configured so that I have 4 x 2TB drives comprising of 8 x 1TB drives set up in RAID 0 Pairs. Spitting my collection over the drives and having say 350 DVD rips per drive.
Loosing a pair of drives is annoying and luckilly only happened once. To re rip all those DVD's for that drive took me well over a week to do, I can tell you!!! I don't need to back them up because I own the originals anyway. But as I say the loss of time was annoying though.
Maybe that's why you should be running RAID 5 which has data redundancy instead of RAID 0 which has no redundancy. It would of saved you a lot of time and trouble and the headache of having to rip your dvds again because of a drive failure. Since the late 90s, I've collected around 3TB. First it was MP3s, then RMs and now AVI/MKV. However, I am very discerning as to what I download. For instance, there are few movies outside of cult and/or telemovies. I'd also estimate that at least 1.5TB of the 3TB are documentaries, and at least 2/3rds of my total collection is of British origin.
Much of the collection has never been released to buy, and some probably never will be. I should point out that much of the stuff that is available commercially in my collection are actual backups of the DVDs or VHS I own, and I try to acquire legitimate versions of the stuff I really like as soon as it's available. Oddly enough, I have quite a few DVDs that are still in their original plastic wrapping as I've been content to keep watching the downloaded versions acquired before the DVD was released commercially. Most of this collection is stored on DVD-R (TY), although newer arrivals are either on my laptop or my HTPC awaiting DVD-R backup. That said, I am looking to move away from DVD-R in the medium term, going instead to a selection of portable HDDs (preferably 2.5' as these are more convenient if more expensive per GB than 3.5' HDDs). I currently have 3 x 160GB 2.5' external HDDs and 1 x 640GB HDD for this purpose, but I've not really been pushing it too hard yet (the 640GB has around 400GB on it, but this is all stuff that is backed up onto DVD-R). Maybe that's why you should be running RAID 5 which has data redundancy instead of RAID 0 which has no redundancy.
It would of saved you a lot of time and trouble and the headache of having to rip your dvds again because of a drive failure. True, but then again.
Now that I have so much on the drives. I don't have sufficient space to backup the drives to reconfigure them. Plus the fact that it will be so massively time consuming to move say 3TB of data to other drives to then reconfigure the drives and move the data back. I did it once when my drives were 500GB drives, BUT there I put 4 drives in RAID 0 etc and you can guess what happened a week or so after removing the copies off the drives. The array started to have problems.
Well ok there were issues and I managed to pull the data off and only REALLY lost 2 DVD rips due to errors. So reconfigured the drives back to their RAID 0 pairs and all ok. Was a problem with the controller. Which a later firmware upgrade addressed. Experience gained there:) Astro. Having backup copies of everything requires copious amounts of extra redundant HDD space, that's why I share all my media with friends and vice versa. This way both parties benefit; Person on the giving end uses person on the recieving end as backup (so if any data loss occurs, you can get everything back).
Also, this allows HDDs to be used to their full potential (no data redundancy). Hence, don't have to waste money on extra HDD's. Not to mention the new media aquired when on the recieving end of the transaction. Its a win-win situation.
I can happily say that this method has saved my collection on more than one occasion. Start a group of some sort perhaps? Knock-knock 'Who is it' 'Police open up' 'just a minute-just a minute. I'll be right there' knock-knock-knock-knock.come on dban =P. 'Now I know these look like computers.' 'It's me bob you nut, had ya going'.
EDIT: Currently just got 1.5 – 2 TB of mixed stuff movies, music, games, the essentials;) , of which 1 TB is on an external HDD and the rest on burnt DVDs building new PC and will add HDDs to that when $ allow. Ive got 2.75 TB's of room on my server which ill probably upgrade once i put it into a P180 mini which can hold 5 HDD's instead of the current 3 i probably only have 1.5tb of data though which ill probably increase the more LANS i attend which ussually works out at 3-4 LANS a year of varying sizes. Start a group of some sort perhaps? Haha i doubt we would be able to, due to the methods used in acquiring the data. Though in general there are several groups that are run, they are called LAN parties and required 24 port gigabit switches at a minimum (last one i went to had 3) if anyone wants to look into a smaller one in melbourne eastern suburbs runs most school holidays on a weekend(had 50 people last time). HOLY CRAP I just added up my drives. 3x1.5TB WD's 1x 1.5tb Seagate 1x1tb Seagate 1x750gb seagate 1x500gb iomega 2.5' backup drive 1x320gb seagate hmm i love seagate 8.5 TB of storage the 1.5's all have got under 200gb free the 1tb is my network share drive, and is full the 750 is windows and my docs the 500 is transfer between work and home, and imporant things (digital cam pics) the 320, is my hidden porn drive haha i woudnt have a clue whats on all my drives.
I mostly have music and shitloads of photo's. I used to leech sites haha. The movie companies probably encoded them at the studios at different bitrates.
Yeah, there are many reasons this can be so, that being one of them. Alien & BFE are near enough the same length (111min – 114min) so that isn't a factor in this case. I've spent the past month or so format shifting all the DVDs I own into high quality AVIs with the 5.1 audio for a planned HTPC. I don't torrent (a 5GB 3G plan is what I'm on currently) & if I like a movie, I'll buy it, once it drops down from the initial overprice. I know many people who torrent & I'm forever being offered invites into private tracker sites (I have 7 current open invites) but I also know a few people who've gone away from limewire/uTorrent etc & started buying the tunes they want.
A couple of virus infections made them sit back & wonder if it was worth it. So anyway, I'm just under 2TB of digital media but if you add all the DVDs I format shifted from. Good thing hard drives aren't expensive now a days. Depends on how much capacity you use, it all starts to add up quite quickly. How big is a Blu ray movie when ripped uncompressed? I find the mean is around 25GB.
I always leave my blu-ray rips untouched. Largest one i've ripped is Watchmen which was 49GB for the single movie file.
(Thread Disclaimer: If mods are reading this, Aus legal system operates on an 'Innocent until proven guilty' concept. Therefore best to assume all discussion/media stated in this topic are obtained legally unless explicitly stated. So guys, best to keep the legality discussion under control to keep the thread alive;) On an completely unrelated matter I recently applied a new vinyl to my laptop:;). Australian downloaders have a tendancy to keep large collections of data rather than downloading something, using it and then deleting it. This is largely due to the really really really poor internet plans around.
I would remove my file storage system and stream content/re-download for reuse in the future if Australia had similar plans available to the States/Europe. Edit: My data breakdown is something along the lines of: Television:1.5tb PC Games: 500gb Console Games: 750gb Music: 50gb Apps: 100gb Stored on a 3gb Raid 5 Array. Not to be morbid, but where's all these TB's of data gonna when we. Are people going to be leaving TB of data to people in their will? Or would that be PB's by then?to my brother I leave my pron and music collection;) If they realise how many hours of their life they wasted on ripping, downloading, backing up, changing formats, occasionally actually watching or listening to their collection. They would probably want to be buried with it.
Maybe they could make the coffin out of drives! Let's do some basic maths here – assuming a minimum of $100 for each 1TB of storage, that means people with 20+TB have spent over $2000 just for the HDDs. I know I need more storage, my 500GB drive is full – but seriously, 20TB of data. Even if each item is on average 1GB in size, that's 20,000 movies/episodes/music vids/whatever. That's just ridiculous! It's called obsession. My friend, who does high end AV installs, put in a $30,000 system in for a dude last year.
The main purpose was so he could rip his entire DVD collection to a Nas server and watch the movies from any room in the house. $30,000 to save a space the size of a 2 booksheves. And the terrible inconvenience of opening a dvd case, taking out the disc & puting it into a dvd player. I have another friend who spent about 5 years ripping VHS movies to CD. Then when DVD was released he started on them.
1 dvd movie takes up 2 cd's. Imagine changing all your movies half way through. He ended up with over 2000 CD's. Then the whole process began again when DVD burners came out.
All the movies were rehired and ripped again. How many of these movies were actually watched. Soemwhere between none and 2. People lose site of how much it costs and why they are doing it. They forget to factor in the amount of time and money it costs to do all this. I dont think i will ever understand it.
They probably think i am crazy for buying all my dvd's. But i set limits.%90 of my collection has cost me $5.00 each(local pawn shop). The rest is from Ebay or JB specials. It's called obsession.
I can trace my data hoarding habits back to my fist 5 ¼' C64 Floppy disk collection. Back in 85 it stood at 50+ floppies (and yes they were notched to be double sided).lol. And I probably used 10% of that software. Not much has changed other than the media types and storage capicities:) weird huh?
That sums it up really, it does become a bit obsessive. I'm hooked on anime and have been for a long time, like back in the 60's as a kid I used to go to a cinema in Melb' that played Japanese movies and they'd occasionally play this weird cartoon stuff.I was lost from that moment.
My media storage at the moment sits at. Movies – 2.5TB TV shows+series – 3 TB Photo's, home made vids -3.2TB Music,Mp3,flac,rips – 4.7TB Anime(Japanese mainly but Korean/Chinese/Indian and a few others, Series,OVA,OST(cross stored),movies,trolls etc- 9.6TB and growing at about 45gb a month.
All stored on ext hdd's but soon to be burnt onto disc.yes it's going to be a long term project but I'm worried about losing a hdd. God and then there's the vinyl collection to digitalise if I can ever be convinced to get the correct hardware and software for the job. No more obsessive than the guys in the desktop threads who constantly update their hardware and cases and tear em down again. It's like stamp collecting or beer cans or car modification etc etc. See those external drives are not a solution for long term storage either because they can fail. I think for that sort of mass storage BD-ROM would be your best best. I believe they can hold 50GB of storage per data disk.
BD/RW though, the cheapest drive is around $220.00 which is a little steep compared to the DVD/RW, even the higher end dual layer burners. 8.5GB Dual Layer would probably be the cheaper option but those discs aren't cheap either. That's good info, thanks for that:D I'll look into those drives. I could let all the TV+Movies go and maybe even the music but the Anime.that'd kill me to lose that. Time it takes them to get a warrant they (the files) would be long gone.
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Encrypt the drive before you put the data on it. Rumour has it that the police have basically no ability to decrypt – apparently their most successful way of getting access to encrypted drives is asking the owner for the password.
I have about 5TB of useable space. 150 or so DVD rips (I own all the DVDs tho as well, they're in a box in the spare room) = 1TB.
130 GB of music – all duplicated in flac and mp3 (stupid iTunes and iPods won't play flac). 3-4TB of recorded TV – she who must be obeyed believes that old recordings of Australian Idol, Masterchef, Wimbledon, Australian Open etc etc are essential archival footage. She'd rather I buy more disk than her have to delete anything.
And since things started going HD, we use a lot more space. I don't delete things I've downloaded. Downloading is expensive (and time consuming). Disk is cheap. It's obvious you'd keep it once you have it. I can't be bothered dumping the collection size, but usable space is currently sitting at around 18TB on 20HDDs, I can add another 2 drives and then the case will be completely full, so I'll need to either replace smaller/older drives or go externals.
I will also need to use mount points shortly since i'll be out of drive letters. Every internal drive has an external backup drive (in a safe), and for critical stuff I have at least 2 copies (1 x offsite and 1 x onsite), plus ultracritical stuff is replicated onto my wifes PC, the HTPC, the digital picture frame laptop, the kids laptop. I also do full images of the boot drives on my PC (nightly), the wifes (weekly) and HTPC (whenever there's a change) and also have a 200GB archive drive on each PC that keeps 25 versions of deleted files from the sync/backup jobs for critical data (photos etc). The only thing missing is some static archive backups that I'll start doing once I start replacing the small 400GB drives. Probably a little over the top, but after 20 years in IT operations, architecture and IT service management I've learnt to be careful.
I've got the folllowing online. 1000CDs online in MP3 and FLAC - 60hours of SD home Video - 30hours of HD home Video (13GB per hour) - 12000 x 13mp neg and photo scans, plus another 13000 odd digital photos.
400+ DVD ISOs of my collection - 100s of BD rips from my collection - SD/HD TV captures from the HTPC My rule is that everything must be online so it can be accessed from the NMPs around the house. It all adds up and so much more convenient than having to go to the shelf:-). Paul you can be fined or arrested soley on the evidence that you refuse to give up the password for a warrented search I wasn't aware of that. I guess if whatever you're doing is dodgy enough, then fined or arrested for refusing to divulge a password may be preferable to them seeing whatever you have. I haven't encrypted my drives anyway other than the one that holds backups of my work stuff (my employer requires encryption on any backups). I guess I don't do anything particularly illegal. I have copies on my hard drive of DVDs I already own, but if they're going to come after me for that, then a hell of a lot of other people would be in the queue before me.
And I guess recording TV is still technically illegal if you don't delete it immediately after watching it. I am aware of a technique on linux to have two mount points within the same drive, using two different passwords. So you can then give the cops a password that shows them some stuff, and no reason to expect that you have another password or another mount point. But that'd be even more faffing around than having a password in the first place would be. I Like my motherboard with my special content drive with it's 256 bit key stored on a flash drive No flash drive then no access to HDD. Password, what password.:) As per original topic, my server has 14TB of storage capacity, which is 75% full. My Raid arrays store a backup of my 1040 DVD's that I own.
I have watched every one!! Other drives have other stuff or no suff on them and used if I need to reorganise a Raid array, in the event of a problem occuring. Important data is backed up to external drives, which is only photo's and a certain collection of stuff that I've been collectiong over 15 odd years. Backed up once a month or so.
Thanks to all for getting it started and keeping it going. Partly because it's made me realise (again) that there's always someone more hardcore or crazy than you!!!:-D ' My available storage is as follows: ' 5.4TB available RAID5 NAS (4x2GB HDDs). ' 1.8TB available RAID1 NAS (2x2TB HDDs). ' 1.8TB available RAID1 NAS (2x2TB HDDs). ' 1.8TB availabel non-RAID NAS (1x2TB TimeCapsule). ' 0.9TB available non-RAID NAS (1x1TB TimeCapsule). ' Also then have internal HDDs and several externals – 2x500GB 2.5' HDDs; 2x100GB 2.5' HDDs; etc.
But I don't generally add these to the count of data as they generally carry the portable 2nd copies of data that I need to carry around with me, instead of unique data. ' So theoretically that's around 12TB worth of space for unique data. ' Obviously I'm running (mostly) redundant systems in the hopes that that will cater for most disasters – having an additional level of redundancy to everything I own would just be a little beyond my means at the moment – despite knowing it's actually a good idea to do so. Though at the moment as I'm not YET using all the available space on these devices I'm using the non-RAID NASes as secondary backup space – and temporary-dumps space – useful for taking along to LANs etc.
As they're not as bulky as the RAID NAS devices and they have additional functionality like WiFi and mini-router capability. ' I'm real anal about how I sort the stuff too – I've broken things up into device-specifc collections, and the sorting ON the devices is pretty fierce too – so I always know exactly and instincively where I need to look to find whatever I'm looking for! ' The 5TB RAID5 NAS is where all my DVD RIPs go. I have a large-ish collection and I rip to native, lossless formats so the space is necessary. Of course having the physical media put away elsewhere in the house counts kinda acts as a backup there at least. 3.16TB used – and that's around half my collection ripped. ' The first 1.8TB RAID1 NAS is then the device that caters for all my ripped and collected music, as well as the downloaded / collected video – movies, series, whatever.
Currently sitting at around 1.2Tb used. And that's before I go back and re-rip my CD collection into lossless format – I never quite finished ripping my CD collection to begin with, and now have to re-rip what I did manage to get done in a lossless format. Also includes a mere 40-odd GB of pictures – I lost most of the stuff I'd been compiling for years some time ago to a home invasion where my computers were swiped. So this is all mainly built up again since then. ' The second 1.8TB RAID1 NAS device doesn't really count to this discussion much as it's where I put mostly non-media data.
All my system backups (Windows / Mac / Linux) are done to this device, as are all the backups of my crucial documents and so-on. The only relevant numbers to add to this discussion from this device are around 360GB of ISO backups of OS, program, and game disks; and around 50GB of downloaded program files, drivers, games, and the like. ' Then there's probably around 600GB worth of unclassified stuff lying around on the portable HDDs and what-not – stuff I've received or downloaded or whatever that I've not yet had the chance or strength to go through, sort, and classify.
' So in total, meda-specifc(ish), we're looking at what? Approximately 5 and a half TB. With almost as much still to come once I manage to slog through digitizing and backing up the rest of my physical collection.
Nevermind the torrents that are playing in the background as I write this.:-p ' What also helps is that each of the RAID-capable NAS devices have DLNA-certified media-servers built into them. So I've configured this software to cater for my collection and essentially any DLNA-certified device that enters my home with either a WiFi or ethernet connection can happily hop onto my network and stream the media directly – including LCD HD TVs. Makes for a FAR more convenient and neat way to handle things than having to dig through massive collections of physical media, or searching through collections of physical hard drives to find the one that needs to be plugged in, or whatever.:) ' Actually, replying to this topic has been useful. Sorta refreshed my awareness of my situation and what still needs doing going forward. ' Keep it up y'all!!! Menageryl -Jack of All Trades, Master of Some!
Wow, some you guys are a bit psycho. Personally I'm sitting on about 2-2.5 TB. It would be an absolute disaster, worthy of suicide for some of you if all your HDDs died. How often do you decide its time to buy another 10TB+ worth of HDDs to back up your existing stuff? I mean it isn't exactly cheap for some of you. Or put in another way – Even though I have absolutely nothing compared to some here, its still important to me and I was thinking about getting backups for all my HDDs, but I was wondering how long do you wait before you get backups for the backups?
Also, if I put all the essential files on a backup HDD, and just store it away (not connected to anything), how long should I expect that HDD to last? Also thnx Rerouter for the song. It such a hassle to actually organized it alphabetic order which took me like 1 week of sorting through the externals. That reminds me, is there some sort of program that can mass modify all your file names? Like add a certain prefix/suffix, or maybe something even more advanced like change the first letters to capitals etc etc? That would be pretty useful, cause its a pain renaming all the files individually so they look organized and consistent. I remember I knew some basic functions built in Windows XP that let you modify all the file names in a folder at once, forgot what it was though.
IMO, as soon as the data is counting in the TB, these files shouldn't be sorted in manual mode anymore I am currently sitting in the 45TB bracket and looking forward to building some sort of an indexed media library (file formats: mp3 and their cover jpg/bmp, tv recordings, movies and their covers and photo batches sorted by events) I am aware there are dam solutions, but it appears none of those are free. I cannot imagine what the scene will be like if I have to manually re-arrange the current setup if something went wrong or if the current structure needs an upgrade At this stage, it appears that the majority of us are merely just 'storing' these as their 'data', rather than utilizing them.
Imaginary scenario: listening an OST album and receive recommendation of other OSTs and/or the movie sitting somewhere on the HDDs that will be more like it is there some sort of program that can mass modify all your file names? Not one that I know of that can handle files regardless of format I use Tag&Rename for my mp3s, manual 'rename' for video files. Listen to a wav/flac/320kbps file and then make a copy of that same file and down convert it to like 96kbps then listen to it, if people cant tell the difference then they need to get their ears checked lol but yeah your right most people dont know;) for the average joe 192kbps mp3 is fine but for DJ's they mainly use 256/320kbps and higher although with the introduction of usb's on CDJ's im sure they will use wav's for some:) I'm talking about telling the difference between a lossless format like FLAC in 320kbps vs VBR MP3.
I can tell the difference between 128 vs 192 side by side easy, but I was just commenting that it's hard to tell the difference between lossless FLAC and high bitrate or VBR MP3:-). I think we should make a new thread, my collection has grown considerably since i voted near the start of this thread and i cant change my vote. Polls have been removed from the forums around a year ago, so creating a new thread wouldn't do much good unfortunately. Lol, I see my last post was from 2010 with my 250GB Hard Drive. Currently got 3TB storage now with only 411GB worth of Movies, Anime and TV Episodes.
Had more but lost it when my RAID0 array crashed a few weeks ago. Had over 200GB worth of TV eps and movies there. My music collection is only 18GB 2930 songs and I probably only listen to a 10th of it:P If I had known about the Thailand flooding I would have bought bulk hard drives right away. Most of it is raid configurations so total usable is lower then the below specs:) Norco 4220 – 20 x 2TB Norco 4224 – 24 x 2TB Hotway H8R2-SU3S2 8-bay – 16TB Two Dlink 320 NAS – 4TB each Server PC – 10 x 2TB Gaming PC – 6 x 2TB plus 12BGB SSD for O/S Half a dozen 2TB Externals and a bout 10 odd drives of various sizes sealed up with backups of everything important (or to rare to find/redownload off the net) Of course its less impressive then the setups i've seen on Overclockers, they make my server farm look pitiful in comparison! I'm talking about telling the difference between a lossless format like FLAC in 320kbps vs VBR MP3. The difference is mathematical.
FLAC is lossless, meaning you can transcode as necessary from a pristine source. This is the main benefit of FLAC. Not all devices are going to allow you to put your whole collection on @ 320kbit. A file encoded at 320kbit and then again to 160kbit is going to sound worse than something encoded from lossless to 160kbit. My encoding of choice for my collection/use is Lame 192kbit mp3, but I backed up my CD collection in Flac so that some day if I change my preference, I have the uncompressed sources to work from.