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I think this is the funniest thing I've seen Tdarcos say. Great delivery.Tdarcos wrote:This is what the Republican Right calls the "Occupy Wall Street" movement.
And is it properly backed up? Most of us fail to keep proper backups and when something goes wrong, we're in trouble.Flack wrote:I have "played DJ" [ deleted ] The biggest problem I had at the first one was, I was unprepared for requests. I brought my own personal mp3 collection (which is ginormous)
Oh please, don't bullshit me. The minimum expected retention time for CDs was ten years when they came out, and now averages about 100 years if I remember.Flack wrote:I don't trust DVD-R or CD-R media for backups.
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Captain Fletcher, The Outlaw Josie WalesThey're simply too unreliable for long term storage.
Oh really? Soft magnetic floppies, the worst possible storage medium in terms of ease of damage and destruction. If you're going to bullshit me at least try to think up less ridiculous and obvious lies. At least if you had said 3 1/2 disks, which hold more and are more resistant to damage, that might have had slightly more credibility.No, all I trust now are floppy disks -- 5.25, preferred.
And your average MP3 would have to be split across 4 disks. (MP3s are already essentially compressed so compressing them won't gain much.) So with the average MP3 being about 4 meg or so, what you are saying is your music collection consists of about 120,000 MP3s?My current MP3 collection takes up approximately 600GB of space, or (roughly) 600,000 megabytes. A 5.25" floppy disk, assuming DS/HD, stores (after formatting) roughly 1.2 megabytes -- meaning, I'll need approximately half a million floppy disks to make one backup -- or, a million for two full backups, if you are to keep one copy offsite.
Let's see. A 5 1/2" disk probably requires about 1 foot of space per 100 disks, if I remember from the days I had trays and trays of them, probably 20 years ago. So, given that this would require 50,000 linear feet of shelf space, and you could fit them into a 6" shelf space, you'd need a 12 shelf bookshelf - each shelf 6" high, going up about 6 1/2 feet (using not very thick plywood), so 50,000 feet divided by 12 is 4167 feet, so basically you'd need a shelter having 3/4 of a mile of shelf space 6 1/2' high. That, at a minimum, is a room about 300 feet long and 20 feet wide, presuming you use space compression where the shelves are movable so that you don't have a corridor between shelves when it's not being used. (Doctors and veterinarians offices have these, they'll have three or four shelf units with only one opening between them since you don't need to waste space because not every shelf needs to be simultaneously accessible.)I did just add a couple of large bookshelves down in the tornado shelter that are big enough to store my share of the the diskettes. Do you have room to hold this amount of media at your place?
So I presume you back up all of the FAA's critical data on 5 1/4" floppy discs? How do you automate that, and where do they store all these discs?Flack wrote:I don't trust DVD-R or CD-R media for backups. They're simply too unreliable for long term storage. No, all I trust now are floppy disks -- 5.25, preferred.
