If your house is on fire what recording would you grab?

[BBMmk2]

I'd grab my external hard drive, with all my recordings ripped to flac!

ahat a brilliant nidea!! Especially as some are 1tb!!

[MrGongGong]

ahat a brilliant nidea!! Especially as some are 1tb!!

I would be very wary of trusting a HD to be the only storage (unless you go the whole raid array route)
Hard drives will always fail
I good friend of mine who does a lot of mastering for CD production has the technique of buying a new HD for each project , once he has finished it the HD is stored in a cupboard. The consequences of storing everything on a huge multi TB disc are that WHEN rather than IF it fails are that you loose everything rather than some things.

but life is like that

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

[BBMmk2]

I would be very wary of trusting a HD to be the only storage (unless you go the whole raid array route)
Hard drives will always fail
I good friend of mine who does a lot of mastering for CD production has the technique of buying a new HD for each project , once he has finished it the HD is stored in a cupboard. The consequences of storing everything on a huge multi TB disc are that WHEN rather than IF it fails are that you loose everything rather than some things.

but life is like that

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Sounds like there is no fail safe way really?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Everything's insured! I'd grab my composer-autographed scores (Tippett, Lutoslawski, Goehr, Birtwistle). The twins can look after themselves!


(Oh, alright: in the true spirit of of the Thread - and get prepared to "cringe", Bbm! -
Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, Patzak, FERRIER / VPO / Walter.)

[BBMmk2]

Everything's insured! I'd grab my composer-autographed scores (Tippett, Lutoslawski, Goehr, Birtwistle). The twins can look after themselves!


(Oh, alright: in the true spirit of of the Thread - and get prepared to "cringe", Bbm! -
Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, Patzak, FERRIER / VPO / Walter.)

That made me laugh

[Bumfluff]

I would be very wary of trusting a HD to be the only storage (unless you go the whole raid array route)
Hard drives will always fail
I good friend of mine who does a lot of mastering for CD production has the technique of buying a new HD for each project , once he has finished it the HD is stored in a cupboard. The consequences of storing everything on a huge multi TB disc are that WHEN rather than IF it fails are that you loose everything rather than some things.

but life is like that

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

I had to look up what 'raid array' was, and it sounds complicated; I don't do anything as clever as that. I just back up my back ups, and put them in different buildings; some of my external HDs are in my parents' house. Thus when the HD I use daily dies (and it has done!), I quickly buy another one, back everything up again and store it safely.

[3rd Viennese School]

and I would save my own recording of Henze talking and his symphony no.9 taped at the proms in 2000.

Actually, now I come to think of it, I havent seen this tape for years. Anyone know where it is?

3VS

[MrGongGong]

I had to look up what 'raid array' was, and it sounds complicated; I don't do anything as clever as that. I just back up my back ups, and put them in different buildings; some of my external HDs are in my parents' house. Thus when the HD I use daily dies (and it has done!), I quickly buy another one, back everything up again and store it safely.

that seems a very sensible way to go IMV