I have over 1000 cds ( not songs--- full cds of songs )copied to my computer and it doesn't seem to bother or slow it down.. I am trying to sort and put them on san disks and 2 G don't even cover many at all to copy on ...What would you suggest?
2007-09-24 01:49:23 · 3 answers · asked by Eileen J 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
It will depend upon the compression used - higher quality means larger files. At a guess, I'd say you need at least 100GB to store all of this. I have around 750 CDs that have been ripped at high quality settings. They're about 90GB in this format but can be compressed down to 50GB in aac format to go on my iPod.
You can purchase an external hard drive to store them. If you're looking for a new computer, get one with at least a 500GB drive.
2007-09-24 02:03:12 · answer #1 · answered by Fraggle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How many CDs a computer holds depends on the size of the hard drive.
Go into "My Computer" and find the listing or icon for the Hard drive (C:). Right click on it and do Properties. It will open a window with a "pie chart" in the middle of it. That chart will show you how full the hard drive is and how much space you have left.
If you have less then 10% of the drive (or less then 1 Gig of space) then you have the drive too full. That will slow your computer because Windows needs the free space to be able to run properly.
If you have over 10% of the drive full, then the number of songs on your PC is not what is slowing it.
2007-09-24 01:59:00 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try using a zip program such as win zip to compress them into smaller files and then saving them to cd's if it is just to store them away.
2007-09-24 01:59:31 · answer #3 · answered by jawda_1210 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋