[BC] Digital Storage

[Scott Bailey]

Alex,

Most consumer grade stuff has come up with professional grade stuff these days. 
It's just as reliable. All it is that your going to pay more money in the end 
buying pro stuff, which is funny, Saturday at Best Buys, I was seeing all the 
pro stuff used in Digital Audio. The internet has changed our lives forever. 
You're being like my mother and she wants to live in the past. You don't see 
us using Tube Type Radios in our cars anymore. That's been gone for over 40+ 
years.  Just about all the Commercial Stations use Solid State Transmitters, and 
let the hams play with the old tube transmitters. 

The original masters of recordings are held by the music industry. If you need a 
song, you can go to itunes,napster,etc, and buy the songs. Heck for the the 
commercial broadcasters, there is now a site of current and recurrent music that 
we can download for free, because we are a licensed broadcast station, and we 
pay BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC.  Keep an old 45 and using it on the air is silly, 
clutter up the audio with noise that sounds like a bacon frying contest. Get 
real, and OUT of the past. 

There are collectors of those old 45's & 33 1/3 albums, but now that's just a 
"home hobby" not to be used in the professional word. The world is changing so 
fast that I have a problem keeping up with it.  The next thing we'll hear is 
that your going to show your students how it was done in the 20's and 30's with 
them old 78's!  I've never owned a 78 RPM Record in my lifetime, and I'm nearly 
50 years old.
 Scott Bailey
WMRO-AM, Gallatin, TN 

----- Original Message ----
> From: Alex Hartman <goober at goobe.net>
> 
> While consumer disk space is cheap, i wouldn't trust consumer grade drives to 
>last much more than 5 years these days. Enterprise level drives about the same 
>if they're running 24/7 but if you stick them in external cases and use them 
>sparingly, they'll last virtually forever.
> 
> Remember, things purchased at the same time, put into service at the same time, 
>will FAIL at roughly the same time.
> 
> SSDs aren't proven yet either, so don't go that route. Honestly, the only good 
>"backup" solution i've found for audio really is keep the original handy. 
>