Storage space

Posted by: Slabwax on 06 September 2008

I'm looking to pick up a 750 gig hard drive and trying to calculate space. According to one site I found 750 gigs = aprox 2176 cds in flac incoding. Would the same hold true for Apple lossless or what ever is apple best incoding is?

Thanks
Dean

Posted on: 06 September 2008 by garyi

Yes pretty much.

In my experience flac/apple lossless will reduce the file size by approximately half, so around 300megs a cd, assuming its full.

Don't forget your back up strategy though!

Posted on: 06 September 2008 by Slabwax

Thanks for the quick replys.

Gary: Nope back up will be a matching second drive. I only want to do this fun little project once.

munch: It is an external drive (usb2) i use an Apple macbook.

For now it will be hooked up via ethernet to a SB3 to nait 3r.

Dean

Posted on: 07 September 2008 by Duncan Fullerton

Dean,

I've just peered at my NAS: I use dBPoweramp to rip to FLAC level 5 on it. At that level of compression I have 850 CD's ripped taking up 292GB which gives pretty much the same size per CD as you found elsewhere. I.e. Approx 0.35Gb per CD. I've no experience of the compression levels achieved with Apple lossless. However I'd suggest that FLAC, as an open "standard", is the way to go as you can transcode to any other format later as you wish. Unless you plan to use iTunes to control things that is.

Duncan

Posted on: 07 September 2008 by nap-ster

When I convert from FLAC to Apple lossless the file size is exactly the same.