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reece_james · 2006-08-25 11:54 pm

Keyword, evil! lol (Appropriate for the Window's drive.)
Motoko from GitS
Nonomi is from Gun Parade March. (Little know but one of the best I've seen)
(P.S. My MacBook's Windows drive is the evil Cellaria from Soul Link)

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The Cynic · 2006-08-26 6:51 am

reece_james wrote:
(Does anyone appreciate the drive names and get the Windows drive joke?)

I don't?

confused

tomfoolery · 2006-08-26 8:20 am

My father just bought two 600 GB LaCie external drives. He got an iPod for his last b'day and decided that his 1,500+ CD collection needs to be imported in Apple Lossless...

The total capacity of his computer is now 1,450 GB. And to think this time last year (pre iPod) he was happily using a PC with 6GB!

I myself have no fear of lossy compression and make do with my 80 GB Mac mini + 160 GB iomega external.

tF

reece_james · 2006-08-26 8:32 am

Thats just stupid. CD to lossless?! Overkill considering the CD is compressed anyway... However, it is exactly what is encoded on the CD so you can always bring it back down from tehre. Still, overkill.

dv · 2006-08-26 11:29 am

reece_james wrote:
Thats just stupid. CD to lossless?! Overkill considering the CD is compressed anyway... However, it is exactly what is encoded on the CD so you can always bring it back down from tehre. Still, overkill.

No, CDs aren't compressed. Minidiscs are, but the spec for CD Audio is 16 bit samples, 44100 samples per second, two channels, no compression. Now, if you're comparing it to, say, 24/96 audio, it's a smaller, lower quality file, but the actual data isn't compressed - there's just less of it.

Although, since all digital audio formats store a waveform by basically "connecting the dots" you might as well say that all DA is "lossy."

No, there is something that recording people call "compression" but that's different.

http://homerecording.about.com/od/techn … c_comp.htm

dv · 2006-08-26 11:35 am

p.s. - and since I can hear the difference between 320 kbps MP3s and CD Audio on any speaker system that's better than earbuds, I can totally sympathize with the guy who wants to encode his collection as lossless. I think he'd better plan on either building a mirrored RAID, or getting some other kind of backup system, though. If I encoded 1500 CDs myself and my HD went byebye, I'd probably be forced to kill myself.

(And fwiw, no, I'm not an audiophile - I've jut done enough live music performance that I know what to listen for. I will never claim to be able to hear the difference between 16/44 and 24/96 digital audio, unlike some weirdos.)

tomfoolery · 2006-08-26 2:29 pm

Hey, I'm not condoning it... FWIW I think using that much space for lousy blues music is nothing short of obscene. My ears tell me that Apple Lossless just isn't worth the space it necessitates, especially when compared to other lossy formats. But hey, he earns over �60k a year and drives a BMW M3, so I guess he can afford to be fussy about these things...
hmm

tF

Account axed on request · 2006-08-26 4:23 pm

I live with 40gb. I only use 20 though.

I don't allow myself to ever use more than half a drive.

Zetetic Apparatchik · 2006-08-26 4:42 pm

I'm assuming that's a tradition of some Roman Catholic sect.

reece_james · 2006-08-26 5:08 pm

dvpierce wrote:
I can hear the difference between 320 kbps MP3s and CD Audio

So can I. My logic is that all codecs on a computer are lossey due to the sampling of an analogue waveform. Lossless does record every sample of the CD, but it will still loose quality, You could used a compressed codec with similar results...

Back to the topic.

A lot of people have 1TB in total at home and a few with 1TB on one machine. I'm quite suprised by the number of people chugging along on sub hundred systems though. Kinda envious that you can get away with using so little. Esp when I have around 10-15GB of images in storage.

Account axed on request · 2006-08-26 5:24 pm

Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:
I'm assuming that's a tradition of some Roman Catholic sect.

lol

The first mac I ever put stuff on had an 18 gig drive. It's a habit that stuck. I only use about 30 gigs on my 200gigabyte PC.

bedstuy · 2006-08-26 5:40 pm

I have 1,040 GB

mostlyharmless · 2006-08-26 6:54 pm

I probably have a little over a terabyte with all my computers. I know my dad has over a terbyte on his machine, and probably 2 or 3TB all together.

smilr · 2006-08-27 6:07 pm

reece_james wrote:
My logic is that all codecs on a computer are lossey due to the sampling of an analogue waveform. Lossless does record every sample of the CD, but it will still loose quality, You could used a compressed codec with similar results...

Umm, Lossless loses no quality from what is recorded on the CD. The output from CD Audio and the Lossless are by definition the same. The analogue->digital conversion happened before the CD was made.

Yes, the encoding on from master copies to the CD itself lost quality, but subsequent encoding in a lossless codec will not lose any further quality.

reece_james · 2006-08-27 7:23 pm

smilr wrote:
The analogue->digital conversion happened before the CD was made.

Ah, my mistake. I thought that it was still an analogue waveform on the CD. If that's the case, there is no degradation when using lossless formats.

Anyhow back to the topic. Anyone else got Terabyte Macs?

SicMX · 2006-08-28 7:28 am

I have 2x400gb inside, and 2x400 + 1x500 connected through FW800. I use 1.3TB all the time and the 2x400gbs are only for backup. And i'm still short on space smile

PS. Photos alone take 300gb, and unedited DV and video around 400gb

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SamGuy · 2006-08-28 6:34 pm

speaking of. anyone recommend a cheap gigabit ethernet router?

The Cynic · 2006-08-28 9:12 pm

SamGuy wrote:
speaking of. anyone recommend a cheap gigabit ethernet router?

How many ports do you want?

Here's a decent 5-port gigabit switch. I don't think a gigabit router is really needed because unless you are in Japan or Korea and have a dedicated fiber line, the WAN port would be wasted (as would be your money).

mudogramx · 2006-08-28 11:09 pm

I have a 250GB HD in my iMac, 160GB external FW drive. 410GB total.

fizzwinkus · 2006-08-30 4:30 pm

The Cynic wrote:
SamGuy wrote:
speaking of. anyone recommend a cheap gigabit ethernet router?
How many ports do you want?

Here's a decent 5-port gigabit switch. I don't think a gigabit router is really needed because unless you are in Japan or Korea and have a dedicated fiber line, the WAN port would be wasted (as would be your money).

i just bought a gigabit router because that saves me from having to have a switch and a router.

back on topic, i have a 4x500gb raid5 network server that i use for my laptop - does that count?

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