Reformatting back to flac

[direwolf-pgh]

Originally Posted by Tubular

All hard drives will eventually fail too, though. How long will the best Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim media last, like 10 or 20 years? IMO it would be good to do both optical and magnetic backup, in case either fails. If you download a lot of DVDs, that is a lot of hard drive storage space that would be needed. When Blu-Rays become more common place, they are 25 GB (single layer) or 50 GB (dual layer). For 20 dual layer high definition video Blu-Ray shows, that's 1 TB of magnetic storage needed. One Terrabyte is probably enough to store one band's entire circulating catalog (or the catalogs of several small bands that didn't do a lot of touring) @ 16/44.1 FLAC. But when you get into 24/96 audio, DVD video, and esp. high definition video 1 TB will be spent quickly. Here is an interesting article about a scientist who is developing 50 TB DVDs, which they claim can make hard disks obsolete:
http://in.tech.yahoo.com/060708/139/65pz8.html

im calling bullshit on that story / Reeks of snake oil.. and ultra poor seek-time.
DVD and CD seek times are: 130ms and. 110ms (respectively).
Hard drives = 8ms (average)
Neat story - not buying it.
memory looks to replace hard drives.

Yeah, I guess the main drive (C:\) will always need to be fast seeking, but for an archival media, 50,000 gigs is pretty cool (and staggering).

[Drummer247]

Everything fails at some point.

I store all my recordings on HDD and DVD's. If 1 fails, you have the other to fall back on. Its very unlikely (and very unlucky) that both will fail at the same time.

[diggrd]

Originally Posted by Drummer247

Everything fails at some point.

I store all my recordings on HDD and DVD's. If 1 fails, you have the other to fall back on. Its very unlikely (and very unlucky) that both will fail at the same time.

I do the same with my own recordings and I do one more thing I distribute them to a massively redundant network using bitttorrent and sites like this

[Drummer247]

Originally Posted by diggrd

I do the same with my own recordings and I do one more thing I distribute them to a massively redundant network using bitttorrent and sites like this

Same here, forgot to mention it. lol.