tweak wrote:
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:16:00 GMT, chung wrote:

Steven Sullivan wrote:

I see this in my future, but it look like I'd need 500+ Gb of
storage space for my collection, as .wavs. THe max I see
available (for a single drive) is about 500 Gb, and that goes for
$700. What hard drive are you using?


I've seen 250GB hard disks on sale for less than $200, and 200GB drives
for $110 or so. It's perfectly OK to have multiple drives. I can put
together a 500GB storage system easily for less than $400 now.

Using the approximate number of 10MB/minute of redbook CD audio, 500GB
is about 50,000 minutes of music. Or 833+ hours. Almost 35 days. Without
repeating any selection.

The good thing about digital (as opposed to vinyl) is that you can copy
the music a lot faster than real time, so that 35 days of music may only
take a couple of days to copy.

Didn't Sony and others make a CD jukebox?
Seems I saw their top O' the model that held like a hudred or so cd's,
used dual lasers for continuous play and interfaced with computer via
a cable.
Seems this might be an easier solution for you.

I have something llike 850 discs at this point. Even daisy-chaining
the highest-capacity changers, I'd need to buy at least three, and the cost would
be more than setting up a digital server.

However, one option is a CD changer that also plays MP3s -- I could probably fit
the whole collection on 100-200 discs. If it *also* played DVDs, SACDs and DVD-As,
that would be just peachy..









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