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[modelmaker]

I'm running out of room on my 200gig HD. I have a 120gig on hand that I'm going to use until I can get a larger drive or go to a raid configuration.

My question: should I continue with the same setup as on my original drive (Artists & Albums/A thru Z) on the next drive or should I split the original drive, say, move S thru Z to the 120gig? I know it doesn't make any difference to MC, altho, when ripping, I would have to keep switching the destination directory if I split the directories. A konundrum.

[sanderson]

I'm running out of room on my 200gig HD. I have a 120gig on hand that I'm going to use until I can get a larger drive or go to a raid configuration.

My question: should I continue with the same setup as on my original drive (Artists & Albums/A thru Z) on the next drive or should I split the original drive, say, move S thru Z to the 120gig? I know it doesn't make any difference to MC, altho, when ripping, I would have to keep switching the destination directory if I split the directories. A konundrum.

I have a related question.  I'm starting over, having been without MP3 playback for a while.  I have about 100 Gigs of MP3s.  Should I organize my files in artist folders, put them all in the root of the drive or create some other form of file storage organization?  I know MC will organize things nicely any way.  Do you have a prefered style of organizing files on a drive?  What do others familiar with MC do, and why?  I'd love to hear your thoughts.  Thanks!

[hit_ny]

Here's how i do it. Spread across 3 partitions of approx 40Gbs on 120Gb drives. Why 3 partitions instead of just 1, i read somewhere that this limits any damage somewhat. 1 partition goes the other 2 are hopefully ok. Of course if h.w problem i'm hosed ( but then i mirror my drives monthly to identical backup drives.)

Root
|
|_Genre -1
|  |______Artist (if more than 3 by same gets its own folder)
|  |______VA's
|
|_Genre-2
|......

this way when i run low on space i juggle the genre folders to partitions that have space (moving them within MC of course so it tracks them)

I started doing it this way since the winamp days.

[GHammer]

I'm running out of room on my 200gig HD. I have a 120gig on hand that I'm going to use until I can get a larger drive or go to a raid configuration.

It's a pain to juggle that way.
If you use XP you can make the existing disk a Dynamic disk. Make the new disc a dynamic disk. Now create a spanned volume. Add as many physical disks as you like.

Drawbacks?
If you lose a single physical disk you lose all info.
You can't make the boot disk a part of the spanned volume.

Pluses?
You get unlimited room (kind of) in a single drive so yuo don't need to split things and juggle room.

The "if I lose a single drive I lose all info" scares some people. But, if you use a single drive now, isn't it the same? Backup, backup, backup!

[Sam]

I know a lot of people like to organize music files into neat artist/album folders, but I never really understood the point of that since MC allows you to find and access any files you want using the tags.

I put my files somewhat randomly into 4.5GB folders.  I then back up the folders to DVDs.  Any given artist may be spread across a dozen different folders, but I don't see a problem with that.

The only possible drawback with this approach that I've noticed is that MC uses logical folders to determine if multi-artist albums are part of the same album.  It's not a problem for me because I don't really play albums (I play playlists of individual songs), but I suppose that one could easily make sure that songs of multi-artist albums are all placed in the same folder.