[slytown]

Trying to get an idea on HDDs.

Songs:
Space:
HDD type and size:

 

[Berlioz]

Currently:

Songs: 2421
Space: 59.7 GB
HDD type and size: Some cheap thing that came with my computer. 300GB of storage I think.

It's pretty hard to fill up a decent sized hard drive with only FLAC files. Since I prefer to use the physical media now, only part of my collection is on the computer. My favourite songs have been copied over so that I can put them on portable source.

Also, I hope you're using EAC! If you aren't yet, please do, you'll thank me later.

 

[iriverdude]

How large is your collection, how many albums/tracks? I'd say roughly 400MB per album, flac level 8.

 

[JwangSDC]

125 GB (134,571,746,284 bytes)
10,047 Files, 731 Folders

 

[slytown]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Berlioz /img/forum/go_quote.gif Currently: Songs: 2421 Space: 59.7 GB HDD type and size: Some cheap thing that came with my computer. 300GB of storage I think. It's pretty hard to fill up a decent sized hard drive with only FLAC files. Since I prefer to use the physical media now, only part of my collection is on the computer. My favourite songs have been copied over so that I can put them on portable source. Also, I hope you're using EAC! If you aren't yet, please do, you'll thank me later.

I'm using MAX right now to convert my CDs to FLAC. What would I use EAC for? Would it be just to store better CD copies? Would copying with EAC and coverting those files to FLAC be better?

 

[Berlioz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by slytown /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm using MAX right now to convert my CDs to FLAC. What would I use EAC for? Would it be just to store better CD copies? Would copying with EAC and coverting those files to FLAC be better?

Well EAC can rip files directly to FLAC. I think it does make temporary .wav copies but they are deleted as soon as the compressed version is finished.

That being said, I'm not familiar with the MAX application. I was probably overzealous in my recommendation of EAC; does anyone know how they compare to one another?

 

[iriverdude]

Quote:

I think it does make temporary .wav copies but they are deleted as soon as the compressed version is finished.

You can set it to keep the waves after the encoding process, if you want them.

 

[yepyep_]

Songs: 7011
Space: ~219 GB
HDD type and size: WD Caviar Blue 16MB 640GB

+ older WD Caviar Blue 8MB 300GB for the OS / other junk.

 

[Anonanimal]

I haven't converted my whole collection to FLAC yet but to chime in on iriverdude's point I'd agree that you can estimate 300-400MB per album. Personally I run dual 640GB Seagates in a Raid1 configuration (mirroring). This way if one of my drives fails I don't lose my precious music! I hope this helps.

 

[dazzer1975]

flac level 5

roughly 200 cd albums

101 gb used of a 1 terrabyte hdd.

When I am back home I will give proper figures, number of songs etc.

*edit* 4276 songs.

 

[Meliboeus]

63Gb, all vinyl rips, a mix of 16/44 and 24/96 files, i have a 640+250Gb internal drives, plus a 500Gb external one with backups.

 

[nor_spoon]

7 890 files, all FLAC, 179GB on a Samsung 500GB Spinpoint T166, and backup* on a Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F1.

*Very important!

 

[thisbenjamin]

zfs raid.
Albums, some 3400~

Quote:

benjamin@opensolaris:~$ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT flac 2.72T 1.36T 1.37T 50% ONLINE -

 

[RASeymour]

I just did about 80% of my CD collection. 25,000 songs and 600 or so GBs. Mirrored on 2 WD 1tb external harddrives. FLAC setting was 4 or 5. I used DBPoweramp rather than EAC. It was a bit better at retrieving album/song information. EAC is limited to freedb. DBPoweramp drew on four or five different sources. For classical and some jazz, the different sources helped get more accurate information. I like EAC and have been using it for years but for this project I needed something a bit more.

 

[somestranger26]

2,078 Songs, 84.8GB.