Hard drive capacity

Charles Calkins · « **on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:39 pm »

Is there a formula to figure out how much storage space a ripped CD takes up on a hard drive?
Suppose you ripped 200 CD"s how much space is taken up on the hard drive?

Cheers
Charlie

Marbles · « **Reply #1 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:44 pm »

figure 500Meg per CD or about 100Gig in your case.

Most CD's of recordings which originally came out on LP are smaller than recordings which came out originally on CD's.

If you have mostly older recordings your average will go down. If you have mainly new recordings, your average will go up. I figure like I said above on about 500 meg per CD.

zybar · « **Reply #2 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:45 pm »

Charlie,

Generally speaking FLAC files will be about 1/4 the size of the WAV files.

So if you say the average cd is 600MB, once it is ripped into FLAC you would need 150MB per cd.

So if you had 200 cd's you would need around 30GB of disk (check my math as my brain has been mush lately). Which is nothing these days...Heck, my laptop has 45GB of space!

George

fiveoclockfriday · « **Reply #3 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:47 pm »

Well...if you rip totally uncompressed, it will take exactly the same space as the data on the CD - ie, an average CD is probably 600 mb or so. If you use a lossless compression like FLAC or Apple Lossless, it cuts it by a variable amount, but I've found it's often by about half, so say an average of ~300 mb. When I was just ripping to run to on my iPod shuffle, I used 192k AAC. At this setting, a CD takes about 50mb.

So...if you want good, high quality, I'd say 200 CDs will take approx. 60 - 70 gb or so. That's not a mathematical calculation, as I'm sure some will do on this post, just approximation from my experience

zybar · « **Reply #4 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:51 pm »

Quote from: Marbles

I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney, than ride in a car with Ted Kennedy....

George

ctviggen · « **Reply #5 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:55 pm »

I get higher number for FLAC. This site shows FLAC being about 55% of WAV:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html

That's about what I get in real use. I think I have about 115 CDs burnt using FLAC and have about 60 gb of space used. I can check tonight, though.

zybar · « **Reply #6 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:57 pm »

Quote from: ctviggen

I get higher number for FLAC. This site shows FLAC being about 55% of WAV:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html

That's about what I get in real use. I think I have about 115 CDs burnt using FLAC and have about 60 gb of space used. I can check tonight, though.

I would check, but my pc got nailed by the Beagle virus and is currently down.

George

ctviggen · « **Reply #7 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 02:58 pm »

So much for politics not coming on the board. I guess it just depends on who the person is giving out the political barbs? Personally, as an individual, politics disgusts me. I think all Democrats should be shot and all Republicans hung. But then I try to keep my politics to myself, unlike Marbles.

Folsom · « **Reply #8 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 03:13 pm »

1/4? Hmmm I usually find that 55% figure to be some what accurate. I use 8 compression for .FLAC and find nothing under 300 MB usually, and possibly up to 500 MB.

zybar · « **Reply #9 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 03:16 pm »

Quote from: Destroyer of Smiles.

1/4? Hmmm I usually find that 55% figure to be some what accurate. I use 8 compression for .FLAC and find nothing under 300 MB usually, and possibly up to 500 MB.

Like I said above, I could be wrong...

George

sts9fan · « **Reply #10 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 03:22 pm »

Quote

Generally speaking FLAC files will be about 1/4 the size of the WAV files.

I would say 55-65% is the average I see. I have never seen a 75% compression ratio with a flac.

sts9fan · « **Reply #11 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 03:30 pm »

I would rather help pay for the less fortuante with taxes then line the pockets of those in power with tax cuts....

ctviggen · « **Reply #12 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 03:44 pm »

There, I've changed my signature to be a nice, non-political signature like Marble's.

sts9fan · « **Reply #13 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 04:22 pm »

You goddamn CT Demoncrat!!! How else do you make up for your small if you don't shoot stuff??

jermmd · « **Reply #14 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 05:43 pm »

I have 640 albums burned to flac and it uses just under 205GB of space.

Charles Calkins · « **Reply #15 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 06:04 pm »

Joe M:

I've got about 175 albums so it looks like all I need is about 60to70 gigs of storage. I got plenty. My computer tells me I have 140 gigs of free space.

Cheers
Charlie

Eli · « **Reply #16 on:** 16 Feb 2006, 06:22 pm »

My library of about 500 CDs (~6000 tracks) encoded in Flac takes up 146GB, or a bit under 300MB per CD. I'd say about 1/3 of that is older jazz and rock that was originally released on LP, the rest is stuff released on CD. I see some difference in the size of older releases vs. new, but it's not huge.

Charles Calkins · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 Feb 2006, 12:55 am »

Hi Guys:
So far I've downloaded 74 albums. The download rate is 172kb/per second. that figures out to 5.95 albums per gigabyte. So lets say you have 333 Cd's you want to download to your computer. Using that formula you would need 55.93 space on your hard drive to store 333 Cd's I think these calculations are pretty close. If not blame it on my Radio Shack calculator.

74 CD's is equal to one tray of my CD collection. I have another seven trays to go. My God!!! Where did all these CD's come from!!!

Cheers
Charlie