kbott
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Markus111 said:Hard Drive - I assume that I'll need a big honkin' hard drive. I heard that a RAID is a better way to go, but I know nothing of these. Should I just buy a decent single hard drive, and then get another later on when I run out of space, or should I take a big plunge on a RAID right from the beginning?
Compression - After all I've read, it looks like FLAC is the way to go. I'll primarily be ripping CDs. I've read that EAC seems to be a favorite.
currently I use J Rivers Media Jukebox to manage 2650 albums and approximately 30,000 separate files. Media Center is their newest release but as I don't manage video I never saw the need to update. All my files currently are on an external 250 gb harddrive currently externals of that size retail between $130-200 if you go internals figure about half that but unless you want to keep opening up your pc to add new drives externals are a heck of a lot easier. While FLAC is a lossless compression format until the $/GB ratio reduces MP3 is still probably the way to go Flac files are still too big. When I rip my vinyl to PC or a CD the typical album is probably 85MB @320 while a FLAC file would be around 3.5 times bigger so you'll end up eating hard drive fast
personally my 47 year old ears don't notice a difference