[ViolentGreen]

So apple released their 30 GB ipod, ok I can conceive that someone possibly has 30 GB of music. Now, creative is releasing a 60GB. http://www.americas.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?ID=334&nav=2003
Seriuosly, who has 16,000 mp3s. I have probably less then 4,000 half of which are concert recordings. Are there actually 16000 songs that an average person can recognize?

I just think this is a bit much.

[mezron]

While 60GB might be more than most people could use for music, you can also use the ipod (and maybe the others also) as additional storage. An external hard drive if you will. That would be handy

Jim

[mezron]

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* Heh, only problem is, I am finding that keeping HUGE data like that online on an NTFS compressed partition riding on an HighPoint 370 RAID controller as a single disk is touchy... I lose alot of files due to corruption strangely, & this has me wondering about something ChristianB said about these 8mb buffered disks losing data in fact.
APK

I remember about the time the 2Mb buffered disks came out that corruption was happening at shutdown. MS released a patch the really only delayed the shutdown by a couple seconds to allow the cache to clear before powering down. Could be something similar? Maybe try disbling the write cache on that drive for a little while to see if the corruption mysteriously disappears?

Jim

[ViolentGreen]

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* Heh, only problem is, I am finding that keeping HUGE data like that online on an NTFS compressed partition riding on an HighPoint 370 RAID controller as a single disk is touchy... I lose alot of files due to corruption strangely, & this has me wondering about something ChristianB said about these 8mb buffered disks losing data in fact.
APK

I remember about the time the 2Mb buffered disks came out that corruption was happening at shutdown. MS released a patch the really only delayed the shutdown by a couple seconds to allow the cache to clear before powering down. Could be something similar? Maybe try disbling the write cache on that drive for a little while to see if the corruption mysteriously disappears?

Jim

I have never had any trouble with corruption with ntfs.

[ViolentGreen]

I missed the part on compression. I don't know anything about it so I can't really comment on that. I have used it a little on my laptop for some text files but I have never really messed too much with it with it. My desktop had a 120 gb hardrive so that was less of a concern. (It is in the process of a RMA after two months though and I am seriously pissed off about that). Hard drives are often less then $1 a GB. So don't see the compression remaining a big factor in future versions of Windows.

I noticed that you are using a RAID array, I assume you are using striping. Do you think you could just have a bad hard drive?

I don't know if you are overclocking your system or not but I have heard of many reports of hard drive corruption as a result.

Anyway, you probably knew all that.

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And for using the nomad as an external hard drive. From what I saw, it had no firewire support. I just still don't get it. I havn't heard the greatest about creative's mp3 player quality either.

[Tomay]

I have no problem filling my 40GB maxtor with mp3's. The problem is that I don't have time to organize them and burn them on to CD's.

About filling so much songs 24,570,108 songs 1,919,818 CDs (CDDB.com).

No idea how much songs my collection has, but some of my friends go well over 60GB.

[duhmez]

I have to suggest here to uncompress the drive. If you are filing it up with compressed media files, ntfs compression will be all but useless.

[ViolentGreen]

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I have no problem filling my 40GB maxtor with mp3's. The problem is that I don't have time to organize them and burn them on to CD's.

About filling so much songs 24,570,108 songs 1,919,818 CDs (CDDB.com).

No idea how much songs my collection has, but some of my friends go well over 60GB.

Do you seriously know and like all the songs though? If so, then I guess you have shown me that there is a market for this product. If not, would it really be worth it to have skip 10-15 songs that you don't know or don't like to get to one you do?

[duhmez]

It's all about storage. justbecuase it can play mp3's doesnt mean you need to fill 60 gigs mp3's on it. Its also 60 gig of storage for any files. this is an excellent feature.


If it could only hold mp3 files it would be rediculously large.

[ViolentGreen]

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It's all about storage. justbecuase it can play mp3's doesnt mean you need to fill 60 gigs mp3's on it. Its also 60 gig of storage for any files. this is an excellent feature.


If it could only hold mp3 files it would be rediculously large.

It just seems like there would be better options for both of these features. I don't see it and probably never will.

[duhmez]

If I was looking to get a large removeable drive, and there were 2 on the shelf. One of them plays mp3's and one of them doesnt.

Which is a better product?

[ViolentGreen]

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If I was looking to get a large removeable drive, and there were 2 on the shelf. One of them plays mp3's and one of them doesnt.

Which is a better product?

Well there is a significant price difference. I have seen 80GB for $150 as opposed to the $400 for this product. Best product is different from best buy.

[Mr.Guvernment]

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I have no problem filling my 40GB maxtor with mp3's. The problem is that I don't have time to organize them and burn them on to CD's.

About filling so much songs 24,570,108 songs 1,919,818 CDs (CDDB.com).

No idea how much songs my collection has, but some of my friends go well over 60GB.

Do you seriously know and like all the songs though? If so, then I guess you have shown me that there is a market for this product. If not, would it really be worth it to have skip 10-15 songs that you don't know or don't like to get to one you do?

if i got all my mp3s off cd's i have well over 200+ gigs+ the 50g i have on my HD right now i think that sums that up.

And yes i do like them all - i lvoe hard house / house / progressive / underground / hard trance - i often just put the full 50g into winamp and hit play - i listen to it all! and if i don't like a track / cd - i delete it and i still have the 200+g on d's and 50g on my comp now and probably add about 1 -3 g's a day of new mp3s

[mezron]

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It just seems like there would be better options for both of these features. I don't see it and probably never will.

I really think you're being a little narrow minded about this... I mean really, the possibilities are endless http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50688,00.html on this sort of thing

Jim

[ViolentGreen]

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It just seems like there would be better options for both of these features. I don't see it and probably never will.

I really think you're being a little narrow minded about this... I mean really, the possibilities are endless http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50688,00.html on this sort of thing

Jim

you are probably right.

[Tomay]

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I have no problem filling my 40GB maxtor with mp3's. The problem is that I don't have time to organize them and burn them on to CD's.

About filling so much songs 24,570,108 songs 1,919,818 CDs (CDDB.com).

No idea how much songs my collection has, but some of my friends go well over 60GB.

Do you seriously know and like all the songs though? If so, then I guess you have shown me that there is a market for this product. If not, would it really be worth it to have skip 10-15 songs that you don't know or don't like to get to one you do?

I could say I could name the artist and the song at least 20GB of them. Don't try me though. I must say I like at least half of my mp3's and that's why I have them.

[Mr.Guvernment]

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It just seems like there would be better options for both of these features. I don't see it and probably never will.

I really think you're being a little narrow minded about this... I mean really, the possibilities are endless http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50688,00.html on this sort of thing

Jim

and THERE is a reason macs can suck! - no reg files - just copy it over and tadda!!! it works on any other system! - u can't do that with the majority of PC applications - there is Apple's great technology bitting them selves in the ass!

[Admiral LSD]

The upside is that with no reg files theres one less thing to get in a tangle requiring a complete reformat to straighten out again...

[mezron]

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and THERE is a reason macs can suck! - no reg files - just copy it over and tadda!!! it works on any other system! - u can't do that with the majority of PC applications - there is Apple's great technology bitting them selves in the ass!

I guess this just highlights whats more important for a vendor in regards to thier users

Apple... how can we make the computer experience a little friendlier for the user? Some people will rip us off, so be it. Our focus is making it friendlier for our legit users.

Microsoft... How can we make it more difficult for people to rip us off? If it inconveniences a some legitimate customers, so be it. No returns on opened software.

Personally I'm of the some people will rip us off, so be it group. Most people are honest some are not. I can't think of a single time that any form of technology designed to stop me from stealing software has helped me out... in any way whatsoever. I can hower think of several times said technology has tried to stop me from doing something legitimate.

Jim

[Mr.Guvernment]

Actually - good points

personaly, even macs the way they are - i think they have far less traded illegal software - so even though it is easier - it is also harder to "find" MAC software.


Yes, MAC's are for people who like things easy, personaly i enjoy the challenge of a PC - i feel i have FAR superious control over my computer in ever aspect then MAC's seem to offer - this though only with my experience of MAC O/S 8.6? and below......