Internal HD
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Topic: Internal HD
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Internal HD
Date Posted: 12 October 2005 at 11:24pm
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Hi guys, Looking for an internal HD, >= 400GB. This drive will be used to store my music collection on in WAV format. Because it will simply be used for music, seek time and RPM really don't matter that much. Anyone recommend a good one? Tom |
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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 13 October 2005 at 12:43pm
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western digital
Seagate
Maxtor
btw why u want to store it in WAV format.. thats gonna take a lot of space.. i think MP3 os preffered.. alomost everything today can play it  ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 13 October 2005 at 1:08pm
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Personally I prefer WMA if I have a choice. MP3 has to high of a loss especially when you pipe it to your Stereo system you can tell quality differences.
As for HD's/ I was always happy with WD's, though I don't think there are many differences in large drives, I assume they all run 7k rpm or so anyway. If you don't already have enough music to fill it up get two 200GB and stripe them, speed is slower than single but you got a mirror when one fails... ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 13 October 2005 at 1:52pm
| I'm going to buy a decent hi fi soon, and will be storing my CD music collection in wav format on a big HD. Theres no point playing mp3 through a decent hi fi, you loose a lot of quality. |
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 6:48pm
| one of the three that Boss said would be safe... anything else, especially at that size, is a danger... mostly to the files on it, but still a danger... |
Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 6:50pm
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Seagate Sux.. I always have problems with their drives for some reason. MAXTOR is always my first choice ------------- If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 6:58pm
| I just ordered a 500GB one off dabs |
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 31 October 2005 at 7:00pm
| i've never had any troubles with seagate drives... |
Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 5:51am
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I prefer the Samsung SpinPoint drives with fluid bearings, so quite you don't even know you have it, and reliable too, my daughter tends to kick/beat jump on the desk, shake/punch the computer when it's on, and 2/3 years on, the drive still rocks and no bad sectors.
As for MP3, rip it with VBR (variable bit rate) so the encoder decides to use a higher bit rate when the song has alot of data that can't be lost, and lowers it when the song quites down, set it with these ranges 192 - 320 anything below 160 gets noticed, and yes most MP3's around are encoded at 128 that's why it sucks when played in your stereo. ------------- :: http://www.mylittlehost.com/ - www.mylittlehost.com |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 9:31am
| Much better still just to not encode it at all, just keep it as a wav. Any compression and you loose data. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 11:26am
| The way the MPEG algorithm is designed though means that you only loose data that cannot be distinguised by the human ear anyway |