Posting Music? I don't know where to start. lol

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Seeking-Christ

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After coming across this thread I decided to run a scan on my music player, total up how much music I take to work with me everyday. Here is the results.

Artists: 293
Albums: 816
Songs: 9,777
Total Run Time: 27 days, 22 hours, and 56 minutes
Total Disk Space: 50.0 GB

The majority of this stuff is either from the Christian side of music, or related to it in some way or another.
 
Subhumanoidal

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Seeking-Christ said:
After coming across this thread I decided to run a scan on my music player, total up how much music I take to work with me everyday. Here is the results.

Artists: 293
Albums: 816
Songs: 9,777
Total Run Time: 27 days, 22 hours, and 56 minutes
Total Disk Space: 50.0 GB

The majority of this stuff is either from the Christian side of music, or related to it in some way or another.
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I got you beat. 4000+ albums. 😉
 
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Seeking-Christ

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Subhumanoidal said:
External hard drive. Keeps it close and handy.
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I use 6 external hard drives, and then once a year I back everything up to blu-ray discs as an extra layer of protection.
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
I use 6 external hard drives, and then once a year I back everything up to blu-ray discs as an extra layer of protection.
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Wow, six? That seems like a lot o_O I have a 1TB external drive that my daughter gave to me with a bunch of movies on it, and I transferred all my image files to it when my last laptop was breaking down. That sure came in handy! I did not think to transfer my music files also. Not that there are a lot of them... I can still do that :D
 
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Magenta said:
Wow, six? That seems like a lot o_O I have a 1TB external drive that my daughter gave to me with a bunch of movies on it, and I transferred all my image files to it when my last laptop was breaking down. That sure came in handy! I did not think to transfer my music files also. Not that there are a lot of them... I can still do that :D
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6 is not for total capacity. Each one is a copy of the other. That way if a drive starts to die, it's backed up. SMART told me that 3 of my drives over heated, and one had bad sectors. A drive with bad sectors needs to be replaced right away. This year I replaced 3 (ext4 formatted) drives, but two of them are reposed as just test drives that it don't matter if they fail. I also replaced a 4th drive (ntfs formatted) because it was also reporting some bad sectors, but that one seemed to have a format issue. It's also reposed as a test drive now.

My backups are sectioned out like this:
3 ext4 formatted drives for my Linux Systems.
3 ntfs formatted drives for my Windows System.
Blu-Ray for permanent backups. These are replaced once a year.

I got way too much data and music to start all over from scratch. Hard drives and SSDs tend to fail over time. One can not have too many backups.
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
6 is not for total capacity. Each one is a copy of the other. That way if a drive starts to die, it's backed up. SMART told me that 3 of my drives over heated, and one had bad sectors. A drive with bad sectors needs to be replaced right away. This year I replaced 3 (ext4 formatted) drives, but two of them are reposed as just test drives that it don't matter if they fail. I also replaced a 4th drive (ntfs formatted) because it was also reporting some bad sectors, but that one seemed to have a format issue. It's also reposed as a test drive now.

My backups are sectioned out like this:
3 ext4 formatted drives for my Linux Systems.
3 ntfs formatted drives for my Windows System.
Blu-Ray for permanent backups. These are replaced once a year.

I got way too much data and music to start all over from scratch. Hard drives and SSDs tend to fail over time. One can not have too many backups.
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They can if they can't afford that many.
 
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