[BC] A Question About Audio Logging and hard Drive space

[Broadcast List USER]

Samsung has announced a Half-Terabyte MOBILE LAPTOP 2.5 Inch drive,  
and the MSRP is only $299!

http://www.samsung.com/us/business/semiconductor/newsView.do?news_id=904

The press release reads "shipping now" but I phoned Samsung when I  
couldn't find any.  I was told it is currently only shipping to OEMs,  
but they are expected to ship to the rest of us at the end of May.   
My MacBook Pro will get that upgrade from its existing 160 GB drive  
as soon as I can get one!

They have also announced a 3.5" ONE TERABYTE drive.  It spins at 7200  
RPM.

http://www.samsung.com/us/business/semiconductor/newsView.do?news_id=888

SO, line up five of those in an old PowerMac G5 ($600 or even less)  
and have FOUR TB of storage.  If you are willing to log stations at  
reduced quality, you could have MONTHS of logged audio for eight  
stations (the limit of one Audio Sciences tuner cards).

--chip

On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:37:32 -0700
> From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
> Subject: Re: [BC] A Question About Audio Logging and hard Drive space
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> I don't know off the top of my head, but my logger program will tell
> me tomorrow.  We log 8 streams/stations onto four 200GB drives and
> purge at 30 days.  Unless there is a problem, we rarely get more than
> 1/2 full.  With SATA drives now in excess of 700GB, it's a slam dunk
> to record MP3 at full bandwidth open ended.
>
> MM