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nooshinjohn
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DIGITAL SUCKS!!
Let me explain myself a bit... three days ago, my computer crashed due to an internal power supply failure. I replaced the power supply only to find out that my hard drive was bricked because of the failure. I purchased a new desktop PC, installed the needed recovery software, and spend the past 48 hours waiting for it to recover all my files from the crashed hard drive. Today I picked up another external drive and connected it to store the recovered files... it will take 6 days to store them all.
I do have almost all of my stuff backed up on another drive, so nothing except my LP’s that I digitized would have been lost, and perhaps a few photos, but even using the backup would have left me without music for a week. Thankfully, it was all backed up, but having no access to music while all this crap gets sorted really sucks.
Let me explain myself a bit... three days ago, my computer crashed due to an internal power supply failure. I replaced the power supply only to find out that my hard drive was bricked because of the failure. I purchased a new desktop PC, installed the needed recovery software, and spend the past 48 hours waiting for it to recover all my files from the crashed hard drive. Today I picked up another external drive and connected it to store the recovered files... it will take 6 days to store them all.
I do have almost all of my stuff backed up on another drive, so nothing except my LP’s that I digitized would have been lost, and perhaps a few photos, but even using the backup would have left me without music for a week. Thankfully, it was all backed up, but having no access to music while all this crap gets sorted really sucks.
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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That sucks john. Been there! BUT you can get 2tb of google drive for about $8 a month. You’ll basically never lose your music. But if your house burns down or you get robbed you’ll never get your physical media back. Everything has its trade offs...Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es; Squeezebox Touch with Bolder Power Supply
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
Bedroom 2.1Cambridge Azur 551r; Polk RT25i; ACI Titan Subwoofer -
Always keep a serious back up!"if it's not fun, it's not worth it & remember folks, "It's All About The Music"!!
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6 days? Damn...
I keep 2 backups in one of the gun safes, plus the drive I leave hooked up to the music system, PLUS the internal drive on the computer. And my son has a drive hooked up to his system.
Are you using USB 3.0? I can create a full backup from scratch in about 30 hours. That’s 3tb of FLAC, and 2tb of mp3. You must have A LOT of music...."Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow
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That's an affirmative; I'll bet digital does suck.......... especially when compared to a CA Goldfinger cart where it doesn't even stand a chance
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The vinyl rips I have done... I cannot hear a difference between the LP and the digital copy.motorstereo wrote: »That's an affirmative; I'll bet digital does suck.......... especially when compared to a CA Goldfinger cart where it doesn't even stand a chance
Once I get things back in service, I will be a happy camper again, but it is going to be a while. Once I have things on the new backup drive, I will need to reinstall them on the NAS I am building, and back things up to a second external drive.
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
I don’t know the size of your music library, so I don’t know how feasible or costly this option might be, but have you considered a RAID setup? Forgive me if you’re already very familiar with it, or perhaps your setup that crashed was already a RAID setup... but anyway you can have it mirror the data from one or multiple drives onto other drives so that it’s harder to lose everything. You probably already know about it, but thought I’d mention.
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Perfect.
Sound.
Forever.
The "digital revolution", broadly, created a whole class of activities that I refer to as metawork. It's like work (i.e., it takes time and effort -- folks may even pay for one to do it) but it's completely useless and pointless when viewed from a holistic perspective of human endeavor I used to think about this when I was creating dashboards for projects, or even just going through e-mails, back in those barbaric times when I used to work for a living (and have money and stuff) 
IMO, of course.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some telegraphin' to do.
Where'd I put that dynamo?
Rock on with yo bad thing, @nooshinjohn
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No one wants to go through that! Good reason to research and purchase a separate RAID/storage device with redundant drives to house all your music. Computer can crash, heck a drive on the storage device can go down, and with proper mirroring, you can keep on keepin' on. Just replace the failed drive and have the unit rebuild the newly inserted drive with minimal (or in some cases - none) downtime.2.3TL's - Living Room
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Power supplies can be dangerous. I bought a new computer and sat the old one in the basement to get the data off the drive later. When I turned on the old computer, the power supply fan spun wildly, smoke poured out and then it was dead. Everything was DEAD, as in anything that was plugged into the mother board (hard drive, video, sound card or USB ports (WIFI dongle, mouse, keyboard) were fried.Stan
Main 2ch:
Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.
HT:
Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60
Other stuff:
Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601 -
That suxs. My, at least, decade old Dell Windows XP desktop still works, but is slower that s h i t, and noisy. I just bought a Dell laptop that is really freaking quiet, and runs Windows 10. Now I need to get the relevant info off the XP and onto the 10.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes
Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables
Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
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Do it sooner rather than later Bud.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
