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iPod How big is your music library?

MacboobsPro said:
Many places I have worked always seemed to have problems with LaCie stuff. I just thought it was coincidence. So I stumped up for a 1TB (2x500GB raid) and within the first 2 weeks it was acting up. Then eventually (after I had put my entire iTunes library on it) it died.

I paid £250 for the drive. Its going to cost £200 minimum to retrieve the data (if at all possible). I have had to buy another drive (£200) to put any retrieved data onto and if I can't get my data back (there is a hell of a lot of iTS bought stuff) then I am going to be well out of pocket. Not to mention all the many hours of encoding my 106 DVDs.

Like I said I thought it was just coincidence but now I don't believe that. I think they are just plain crap. :mad:
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I was only interested because of the price tag. 100 euro for 500 GB Drive , thats amazing. Other perhaps more reliable companys sell 160 - 250 drives for 100 euro.

Get LaCie to replace everything , because thats just ridiculous. Its a new drive and it died..
 
SXR said:
I was only interested because of the price tag. 100 euro for 500 GB Drive , thats amazing. Other perhaps more reliable companys sell 160 - 250 drives for 100 euro.

Get LaCie to replace everything , because thats just ridiculous. Its a new drive and it died..
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I spoke to Lacie about it and they said "the warranty does not include data recovery and if the drive needs opening to recover data the warranty is void."

So what they are saying is 'you can buy our drives, but you shouldn't really use them because when they break you are up **** creek.' You either lose all your data and get your drive fixed or hopefully recover 'some' of your data and throw your brand new drive away.

Luckily I didnt buy direct from Lacie so I fed Amazon a load of crap and they will give me a full refund (when I get the drive back from the recovery guys).
 
MacboobsPro said:
I spoke to Lacie about it and they said "the warranty does not include data recovery and if the drive needs opening to recover data the warranty is void."

So what they are saying is 'you can buy our drives, but you shouldn't really use them because when they break you are up **** creek.' You either lose all your data and get your drive fixed or hopefully recover 'some' of your data and throw your brand new drive away.

Luckily I didnt buy direct from Lacie so I fed Amazon a load of crap and they will give me a full refund (when I get the drive back from the recovery guys).
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Thats crap support. when I get my Mac i'll just buy a external HDD from apple.com , they have good stuff there i think. I'll avoid LaCie , thats for sure.

So sad you lost all your iTunes content , I have my current machine for 3 years or so now and im scared my harddrive fails , so I store my music on DVD's for now.
 
In iTunes:
5.97GB - Music
28.06GB - Movies
28.93GB - TV Shows
0.5GB - Podcasts
0.2GB - Audiobooks

I keep DVD rips, MP3's, and OGG files from my Windows days out of iTunes, and store them seperately:
42GB - Music
61GB - Movies
31GB - TV Shows
 
I just went past the 36,000 mark - coming in at 212Gb.

All ripped from cd's, with lossless copies as well stored separately (most are on hard drive as well but I've run out of space at the moment till I build my new raid storage server).

Before anyone asks, I dj hence the large library and lossless copies plus music is pretty much my only hobby / pastime.
 
Music:422 songs 1day 1.55gb
TV Shows:19 shows 8.9 hours 5.42gb
Movies:16 items 13.5mins 39.8mb (apple ads downloaded from google video)
Podcasts:45 items 33.1 mins 240.5 mb
 
Library

14476 songs 50.2 days 619.22 GB (all aiff legal) including recorded (CD spindoctor roxio) tape and part of my vinyl collection.
 
3991 songs 10.7 days 15.73g.

I've been whittling down my itunes collection over the past few years to stuff that I've actually listened to recently - it used to be over a 700g -yeah I went a little nuts at first trying to create a "digital" music library.
I still have all the CD's and a stereo system with a CD player so if I feel I want to listen to someone I normally don't, then I'll just pop in the CD.
I still plan on whittling more as I add new music.
 
Music: 44.6GB. 8123 songs. 24.4 days.
Movies: 449GB. 256 movies. 20.5 days.
TV Shows: 83GB. 152 episodes. 3.1 days.
 
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