Storage ...external vs. laptop?

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January 28, 2012 at 5:40 pm #1002736

Chris Carruthers
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I’m one of those who keeps my music collection in WAV format, so gone way past the point where laptop storage is sufficient. I now have a 1tb external lacie drive, works very well.

January 28, 2012 at 8:03 pm #13505

Dominic Souza-Larimore
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i tried the external hd route, while i think its a great idea to “back up” your music every so often. i just dont think its convenient enough while using your laptop everywhere you go. having everything based on one internal hard drive makes life alot easier to be honest.

but idk, interested to hear other reasons as to why to go external.

January 28, 2012 at 8:12 pm #13506

djrenots
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Caru, What OS do you use and what media player Itunes or other and do you have problems with losing media information?Also do you use Bea Tunes or Media Monkey or similar program? I keep my media on an external and I’m having issues with some that are on the internal drive. Thanks

January 28, 2012 at 8:39 pm #13507

Todd Oddity
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Mike Check, post: 13529, member: 1342 wrote: Long ago someone told me always keep it on an external drive & I just never thought about it until now ….and honestly I can’t recall the exact reasoning but I was a newb & believed anything.

Ha! Someone told me the same thing when I went digital, and I can’t remember why either. As I was using a multi-use laptop at that time, I followed along to keep music clutter out of my work clutter. Since upgrading to a dedicated show computer though, all my music is on the internal drive, and my eternal drive is now just a backup/archive.

January 28, 2012 at 10:45 pm #13508

TheShard
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I SAY
best to keep it on external and use laptop for dj
that way you dont risk memmory crashes. ^_^

January 29, 2012 at 12:42 am #13512

Hauzer
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I prefer to have the music in Traktor on my laptop itself. I’m using one external HD for a complete back-up of my laptop via Time machine (Mac) and an external HD just for the complete music collection. I really recommend to get at least one external HD for back-ups!

January 29, 2012 at 1:02 am #13514

synthet1c
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I have everything on my laptop hd, I have a copy of the laptop harddrive with os and music and programs ready to slot in, and I have my music on 2 external drives purchased 6 months apart so they don’t fail at the same time, which I have heard story’s about. I have spent countless hours searching for music and many thousands of dollars buying it, plus i ripped all my vinyl to mp3 before offloading most of it, those tunes have memories.

As for playing it I just use the internal hd

January 29, 2012 at 11:10 am #13566

Chris Carruthers
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djrenots, post: 13540, member: 263 wrote: Caru, What OS do you use and what media player Itunes or other and do you have problems with losing media information?Also do you use BeaTunes or MediaMonkey or similar program? I keep my media on an external and I’m having issues with some that is on the internal drive. Thanks

I’m using Windows 7 and iTunes. Whenever I download new tracks I always have to key in the info manually which is a bit annoying. Not used beatunes or mediamonkey. If I move the music as wav files between libraries then I’ll lose the info, so have kept them to one library.

On another note, my external hdd is backed up and kept at another location.

January 29, 2012 at 5:19 pm #13588

Phil Morse
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All on the one laptop for me, digital is about convenience as much as anything else in my (Mac)Book!

January 31, 2012 at 5:47 pm #13768

djsubculture@gmail.com
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External HD for me. My internal HD is just too small for my music collection.

January 31, 2012 at 6:47 pm #13773

John Phillips
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I keep most of my tunes on an external drive. I also have a big folder of music on my laptop, but it’s synced with Dropbox. I’m paranoid that my computer might crash and me lose all my music…. so that’s why I keep it on an external.

January 31, 2012 at 11:53 pm #13797

Sliding Down The Banister
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All of my music is on my Macbook; which is then automatically backed up (hourly!) via my wirless netowrk to an external drive using Apple’s Time Machine software!

February 1, 2012 at 2:57 am #13813

Mike Check
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Thanks everyone …seems to be a split opinion, though universal agreement that backing up your music is critical regardless where you store it.

February 1, 2012 at 5:13 pm #13842

djsubculture@gmail.com
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While external HDs are nice (I have several) nothing beats cloud backup.

February 2, 2012 at 6:40 pm #13956

gullum
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most of my music on macbook I use my iMac for downloading from pools and sort the best versions of mixes then transfer them to my laptop and once a month or every 2 weeks I make a back up of the music liberary on laptop nit on iMac because If they get lost I will have the songs I would play backed up and not 1000’s of remixes I won’t play.
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