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jmschnur

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Space for library
« on: October 23, 2013, 10:52:33 pm »

How much disk space should be reserved for the library in MC19 for say 2000 CDs, 5000 JPEG files, and 200 videos? I am talking about the library not the space for the media files.

I am thinking of an SSD for the OS and for th MC library etc with my media files on another disk.
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knuta

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Re: Space for library
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2013, 10:59:44 pm »

You can see it doesn't need much space. Note the amount of files in the library!

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rjm

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Re: Space for library
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2013, 11:15:47 pm »

I would guess about 600 MB including library (< 10 MB), thumbnails (400 MB), and optional artist artwork (200 MB), but not including backups (about 3 MB per backup).
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Arindelle

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Re: Space for library
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2013, 02:01:00 am »

You can see it doesn't need much space. Note the amount of files in the library!

RESPECT!

OMG and I thought my 6000 cds was a reasonably large library! Impressive.
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knuta

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Re: Space for library
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2013, 09:11:12 am »

RESPECT!

OMG and I thought my 6000 cds was a reasonably large library! Impressive.

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CountryBumkin

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Re: Space for library
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2013, 12:03:48 pm »

I would guess about 600 MB including library (< 10 MB), thumbnails (400 MB), and optional artist artwork (200 MB), but not including backups (about 3 MB per backup).
But don't backup to the same drive where your Library is - if that drive fails you lose everything.
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rjm

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Re: Space for library
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2013, 12:52:29 pm »

But don't backup to the same drive where your Library is - if that drive fails you lose everything.
Unless you regularly copy the library and it's backups to an external drive to protect against hardware failure.
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