conrad_chaffee
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Hello all.
For years I've had a music collection with lots of CDs that I've been meaning to rip into digital form. I've finally embarked on the task. I'm ripping at the highest bitrate I can to get the highest quality files I can, with the idea that storage has gotten incredibly cheap and will keep getting cheaper, so the extra quality is worth the space.
It looks like the whole project will take between 100-200 GB of space. I'm using Itunes on a Dell laptop to do this. I also have an iphone and a Simplify Media account, which means that as long as the laptop is left on at home, I can listen to any of my music on my Iphone anywhere I go (i.e. via a radio-linked adapter in my car).
So far, so good. Here are the problems: first, my laptop only has 150 GB of memory, total. Second, I don't really want to leave it on 24/7. I want to store all the music files elsewhere, so that they're accessible to both the laptop and the iphone (and my wife's laptop, too).
Here's where I'd like your advice. Do you think I should:
1) Buy a networked external hard drive (NAS) - maybe 250 GB or 500 GB if the price is right - and keep the files there?
2) Just get a cheap desktop and donate the keyboard and mouse to charity?
3) Look into storing all those files in the cloud somewhere?
I'd love specific recommendations as to which hard drive, which cheap desktop, or which cloud service, and why. If I should be posting this in another forum, let me know. Thanks.
For years I've had a music collection with lots of CDs that I've been meaning to rip into digital form. I've finally embarked on the task. I'm ripping at the highest bitrate I can to get the highest quality files I can, with the idea that storage has gotten incredibly cheap and will keep getting cheaper, so the extra quality is worth the space.
It looks like the whole project will take between 100-200 GB of space. I'm using Itunes on a Dell laptop to do this. I also have an iphone and a Simplify Media account, which means that as long as the laptop is left on at home, I can listen to any of my music on my Iphone anywhere I go (i.e. via a radio-linked adapter in my car).
So far, so good. Here are the problems: first, my laptop only has 150 GB of memory, total. Second, I don't really want to leave it on 24/7. I want to store all the music files elsewhere, so that they're accessible to both the laptop and the iphone (and my wife's laptop, too).
Here's where I'd like your advice. Do you think I should:
1) Buy a networked external hard drive (NAS) - maybe 250 GB or 500 GB if the price is right - and keep the files there?
2) Just get a cheap desktop and donate the keyboard and mouse to charity?
3) Look into storing all those files in the cloud somewhere?
I'd love specific recommendations as to which hard drive, which cheap desktop, or which cloud service, and why. If I should be posting this in another forum, let me know. Thanks.