Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

So FLAC will only be included in the newly built ones, right?

The FLACs are derived directly from the WAV audio stream I create. That means they're pristine. But each one of these single stage builts takes about 20-25 gigabytes of space on my disk. Even with a 512 GB hard disk, it has to be cleared away. So I keep the FLAC and MP3 and erase the build files and WAVs. That means that to create the FLACs for anything previous, I have to rebuild it, which I cannot afford the time to do for such a small improvement.

Going forward, there will be FLACs.

Well if you're going to start using flac, samsung just created the biggest ssd drive to date. I'd recommend an ssd drive over hard drive the speed of file transfers are so fast.

http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/03/samsu...-shipping/

My computer currently runs on an SSD, 512 GB. It's about 7x faster than the fastest spinning drive I had before it, which is to say it is no longer painful to wait for read/write operations on the large amounts of data I work with. But I certainly would not mind having that beast. 15.35 TB of course would necessitate a considerable expenditure for the drive, and then I would have the joy of creating a RAID array for it's backup. I suspect the cost of all this is not currently feasible.