Do you have your mp3's on their own drive or partition? How many? How many GB's?

Hulk

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I have them on the second partition of my main drive. There are only two partitions on this drive so I figure it would be best to have them on the slower inside tracks.

I have about 6.4GB, around 1650 songs.
 

Dulanic

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I have them on a seperate computer.... I play them over the network, so it saves me space. The computer they are on is just a server, 16GB, 4094 songs, alot are 256KBps.
 

mcbiff

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I have a 10 Gb partition for mp3s, currently I have ~2000 songs there (8 gb).
 

CrimsonWolf

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I keep all mine on my second hard drive, a 8.4GB Western Digital @5400rpm. I don't have very many, only 244. They take up about 1.6GB.
 

Noriaki

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Well I have two IBM 75GXPs a 45gig and a 30gig

I have 2 ~14Gig partitons on each (and 2 little ones for Vmem on the 30 and some OS and apps ones on the 45) and at the moment one of those 4 14gig partitions is dedicated to MP3s. It's about 2/3s full I think.

I have about 58 or 60 CDs all converted to MP3s, and probably 5 gigs extra downloaded...I've never counted them. I'm guessing somewhere in the 1500-2000 range though.
 

TomC25

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WD 45GB with 3 partitions

Drive E: has all my storage - MP3 and Videos

I have about 9GB of MP3 and about 5GB of videos
 

Liquidity

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Check out my rigs below for full specs, but I have an MP3 server with 96gb of space, currently ~66gb full. Not exactly sure how many songs that is, I'll have to figure out how to check that (mmm, new linux command...mmmm.)

Comprising the 96mb are:
(1) 60gb IBM 75gxp ATA/66
(2) IBM Ultrastar 18ES

I'm going to sell the two 18ES's on ebeigh and buy another 60gb 75gxp (or hopefully I can find a 60gb 60gxp in stock somewhere.)

85% of the songs are ripped from CD, anywhere from 128 to 256 (I kept upping the bitrate as storage got cheaper :p.) The rest are from net sites (legal ones like Epitonic and EMusic.)
 

thorin

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Not their own partition but not my boot partition either.

3.2GB
I'm not on that sys right now so who knows the exact count 1000-2000 Songs.

Thorin
 

Ryan

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Mine are on a separate partition, which is 4.3gb. I only have 4 percent of the space left, so I guess it's time to get a new HD :)
 

ChrisOh

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Uh yeah... I have uh my empee-trees on my wade away with 2 ICBM 75GXP's. About 25jigga-bites of them... uh yeah
 

kami

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Mine have their own physical drive. Just a cheap 8.4gb 5400rpm Fujitsu gets the job done. ~3.7gb free
 

CrimsonWolf

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Cpntrips:

Personally, I would do that so that in the event I had to format my C: partition, then the mp3's would still be on the D: partition. Other people may have there own reasons.

 

Erasmus-X

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I keep them on my drive for a while and then I just archive them onto CDs (saves a ton of space).
 

SUOrangeman

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With Project Jukebox (see my systems linked below), I will attempt to convert my CD collection (130 discs or so) to MP3 and run SHOUTcast/Napster along with my exisiting collection (a few GB). I expect to RAID two 30GB 75GXPs, unless the 45GB unts get cheap or 60GXPs are better. I'll probably dedicate 20 to 30GB to MP3s.

-SUO