On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:50:14 -0500, you wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:36:07PM -0000, Dominic Stratten wrote:
>> With technologies today and hard drives costing around 60ukp for a =
120gb
>> drive you'd be best hiding an old computer in the attic and encoding =
your
>> cd's as MP3 files.
>
>Two points here:
>
>1) The attic is a bad place in general for electronics equipment. =
Extreme
>temps are not good.
>
>2) A point that a colleague of mine made: with the ever falling price =
and
>expanding capacities of hard disks, it's probably a smart move not to =
encode
>media, but leave it in its original digital format. So don't use MP3 or =
other
>codecs to compress (lossily I might add). If it's 450 CDs and it =
averages 650
>MB each, it would only take 292G of space to store. 2 200G drives can do=
 that
>with space to spare.

650MB would be the maximum for an audio CD - many will be a lot less, so =
500MB per disc is probably
a more realistic avarage

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