how can i do this?

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mannyace · #16 Post by **mannyace** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:26 am

yeaa i suppose... how long does it take a drive to go bad? i kno its a very general question and it depends on diff stuff

lets say my WD external, almost always on, but only being accessed for a few hours a day... btw should i turn it off more?

2005 · #17 Post by **2005** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:42 am

Shutting drives down and restarting them is worse then leaving them run all the time

#18 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:11 pm

yup just leave it alone or... turn it off if you wont be using it for a week at a time

mannyace · #19 Post by **mannyace** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:39 am

yes i knew it!!! lol

2005 · #20 Post by **2005** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:17 am

Well now I've come across a similar situation.

Im ripping music cd's at work onto the computer here and then backing them up at the end of the day to an external WD 60GB HDD. Problem is I have to re write the entire My Music folder at the end of every day (which is now over 15GB) and that has to be bad for the drive.

In the nature that WMP rips cd's, it makes a folder named after the album in my music and then rips the tracks to MP3's. So if the folder exists with the same name, it will rewrite the entire folder and not just add whats missing.

I dont want to have to re backup the entire folder every day, for the drives sake. Before long Ill have the drive nearly filled with music and copying 40+GB of data to the drive every day has to shorten the life span....

HOW DO I DO IT??????

#21 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:41 am

well Homer, why do you need to back up so often for ripping cd's?

mannyace · #22 Post by **mannyace** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:07 pm

stop using My Music to hold ur files... just use that as a place to rip to

this way u only have to update what u rip today and not what uve done before... i think lol

2005 · #23 Post by **2005** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:26 pm

palmboy5 wrote:well Homer, why do you need to back up so often for ripping cd's?

Because I rip new CD's every day, and want to back them up every day due to the fact I spend 1-3 hours ripping and dont want to do it once so twice is out of the question.

@Manny

That would work, however for right ATM im too far into the process. I guess Ill just have to re copy it all once and then do it like you mention. That will work, but there has to be a better method lol.

mannyace · #24 Post by **mannyace** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:07 pm

well figure it like this... ur copying and pasting quite a bit and frequently right now... prolly better to copy alot more and have it solved once

what bout renaming My Music to sumin else and then make a new My Music folder for rippin into and then copy jus the ripped stuff into the OLD and renamed My Music

2005 · #25 Post by **2005** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:27 pm

Would work, exception being if I rip another cd buy an artisit who already has a folder.

I would have to manually do that one and at this point thats pretty much all of them

#26 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:33 pm

well get started

mannyace · #27 Post by **mannyace** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:03 pm

2005 wrote:Would work, exception being if I rip another cd buy an artisit who already has a folder.

I would have to manually do that one and at this point thats pretty much all of them

sounds like ur gonna be doin sumin manually no matter what right? at least thats not that bad...