Disk Storage / Music Library Storage

1336 topics in this forum

1. Does a zip or a tar/gzip archive compression damage audio files? 1 2 3 4 28

   By wgscott, November 5, 2015
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   • Paul R
   • November 19, 2015

2. Optane SSD as Boot drive - SQ Nirvana? 1 2 3 4 14

   By lmitche, July 7, 2017   

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   • seeteeyou
   • February 7, 2022

3. NVMe SSD designed for audiophiles 1 2 3 4 13

   By darkforce, April 24, 2021
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   • Rsmaximasr
   • July 16

4. Hard Drives Make a Difference in Sound 1 2 3 4 12

   By coxhaus, November 17, 2013
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   • coxhaus
   • May 5, 2014

5. Do Apple Lossless files really sound the same as AIFF? 1 2 3 4 11

   By Mike Gillespie, March 26, 2013
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   • wayne
   • January 6, 2015

6. Have you done a backup recently? 1 2 3 4 10

   By Musicophile, June 17, 2016
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   • mwheelerk
   • October 6, 2022

7. Music file corruption without a change in checksum 1 2 3 4 10

   By wgscott, October 24, 2015
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   • Audio_ELF
   • December 11, 2015

8. Forget storage comparison. Even the same storage can sound different with different file copying methods 1 2 3 4 8

   By Windows X, August 21, 2016
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   • Paul R
   • August 28, 2016

9. Why do WAV and FLAC files Sound Different 1 2 3 4 8

   By MikePM, July 25, 2016
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   • yamamoto2002
   • November 20, 2016

10. Does SSD sound better than Hard Disk? 1 2 3 4 8

    By HiFiInsider, April 20, 2009
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    • wdw
    • June 5, 2020

11. Best SSD for music 1 2 3 4 7

    By Hellvis73, August 2, 2018
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    • jabbr
    • Yesterday at 01:33 AM

12. Best server software for Synology NAS? 1 2 3 4 6

    By Rick Yarussi, December 31, 2014
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    • jcn3
    • October 28, 2016

13. Why Forrest may be right about wav 1 2 3 4 5

    By wgscott, July 22, 2011
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    • 4est
    • August 11, 2011

14. Best CD drive to rip? 1 2 3 4 5

    By miguelito, November 29, 2014
    • 114 replies
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    • kumakuma
    • September 18, 2015

15. What's the best way to rip CDs to a Mac? 1 2 3 4 5

    By gbryant, June 6, 2017
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    • bobbmd
    • March 25, 2018

16. How do you store your music ? 1 2 3 4 5

    By Deaf Cat, May 9, 2013
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    • Alpina_Lux
    • March 3, 2014

17. NAS vs RAID Box vs External Drives vs Cloud Storage 1 2 3 4 5

    By agladstone, August 8, 2017   

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      • cloud
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      • back-up
      • back up
    • 103 replies
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    • agladstone
    • September 11, 2017

18. Choosing a NAS Drive for Sound Quality 1 2 3 4

    By kennythekey, January 13, 2012
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    • The Computer Audiophile
    • February 6, 2012

19. Best External Hard Drive for music storage. 1 2 3 4

    By BMC, September 12, 2015
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    • plissken
    • March 24, 2017

20. MD5 zip/flac/wav challenge $1000 bounty 1 2 3 4

    By plissken, November 12, 2015   

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    • 94 replies
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    • fairdinkum
    • November 17, 2015

21. Optical drive 1 2 3 4

    By alfe, August 12, 2015
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    • Ralf11
    • December 27, 2017

22. First post, I have 120gig of music on a HDD. Now what? 1 2 3 4

    By Bullitt5094, March 7, 2015
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    • Bullitt5094
    • March 18, 2015

23. "Essence of Music" CD treatment 1 2 3 4

    By Hailey, August 10, 2016
    • 82 replies
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    • mansr
    • September 2, 2016

24. Organizing music 1 2 3 4

    By labjr, March 16, 2015
    • 77 replies
    • 12.6k views
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    • jabbr
    • April 9, 2015

25. I have started my own journey into Backblaze storage 1 2 3 4

    By AudioDoctor, August 12, 2023
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    • AudioDoctor
    • May 22