OK guys, question. I’ve been external drive shopping today. I found a one terabyte spinning drive for around 70 bucks. The same capacity of SSD is over 120. However, I found a flash drive with the exact same capacity for 40 bucks. I need to know which of these is going to run faster, because I will be storing most of my stuff on it from now on
@TSchulte that’s what I thought, but I wasn’t 100% sure. My main concern is that unless people go back on their word, somebody else is paying for it and I don’t want to bankrupt them.
@evilcookies98 If someone else is paying for it and they don't mind spending the extra I'd go for the ssd. the other drive would be fine, and even the flash drive would be okay, but spinning drives have a very bad habbit of failing spectacularly and then, unless you have a backup of a back up, you'll lose everything you've put on it.
@TSchulte very true. That’s what happened to my last one. It was partially my fault, but it was an accident. I dropped it while trying to put it back on its shelf and it kind of doesn’t work anymore.
@TSchulte the external casing was what my grandpa would’ve called slicker than snot on a door knob, so I guess it was just a matter of time until it got dropped on its face. How I hadn’t dropped it in the 6 1/2 years I had it utterly baffled me
@evilcookies98@TSchulte You don't even have to drop those things on the floor. Just having them fall over hard on the table, is enough to break those things. That exact thing happened to me on December 19, 2011, just hours before doing my Christmas Special of The Monday Night Nighttime Rewind Show on HitMe Radio. I realized it had fallen over, so put it back the way I prefer to keep it, and didn't think anything of it. Go to do my show that night, only to get errors when trying to play the files in my playlist I had put together earlier. Look at the drive that Station Playlist Studio sees, only to find nothing makes sense. Instead of seeing the files and folders on the drives, JAWS is reading me a bunch of jibberish, like strange punctuations and such. Turns out in the end, my 500 gig USB Western Digital external hard drive was sadly corrupted, and at the last minute, @carrottop1023 graciously filled in for me at the last minute, and I was grateful I had recently backed everything up to the 1 terabyte USB external hard drive that lived in a drawer at the time. It quickly became the main external hard drive, I rerouted Station Playlist Studio to see the library on that drive, in time to prerecord the Christmas Special of Straight Out of the Blue the following day on Celrock Radio, though there was one thing I forgot to reroute. My carts I used for that show. Go to play one, and, Station Playlist Studio throws a fit. Had to fix that on the fly during a set of music, but otherwise, it all turned out ok in the end, but yeah, those drives are fragile. They might as well be made out of porclin or something.
@evilcookies98@carrottop1023@TSchulte Yes, on my desktops anyway, that's how I've always done it, and did it on laptops and netbooks prior to the laptop I have now, which just happeneds to have 2 internal hard drives in it, a solid state 256 gig drive, and a 2 terabyte mechanical drive, which is where a copy of my music, as well as Dropbox, is stored. Otherwise, I've always used external hard drives, powered by a combination of USB and AC power, and I'm grateful, as so long as they don't break, I have all of my data. Though I'm also thankful I have everything backed up to Backblaze, so while it will take me back $200.00, the next time my external hard drives tank, and I'm down to 0 backups, or only 1 copy of data, I can then order a drive from Backblaze, with all of my data on it. I'd recommend Backblaze for you, but it's $10.00 per month for one computer, and I know money doesn't exactly grow on trees, and well, um, I also know that money is kind of, out of reach for you on a regular basis, so keeping fingers crossed this new external hard drive works out, and doesn't get broken. Luckily for me, I have the bulk of my data stored across 3 external hard drives, as well as Dropbox, while the data that won't fit in Dropbox, is on at least 2 out of the 3 external hard drives, so unless we have a major earthquake, fire, or flood any time soon or something, I see it taking a while before it would be possible for all of my data to go the way of the dodo.
@TSchulte@carrottop1023@celrock I have mine set up on the new computer to grab music from the SD card. I’ve also started installing software on that card because this computer only has 64 GB of internal storage. I don’t mind. It just means the next time I have to switch computers, I don’t have to go through the headache of transferring everything and a very roundabout fashion. Unplug drive from old computer, plug drive into new computer, done.
@evilcookies98@TSchulte@carrottop1023 Yeah, it's nice when we can do that. Only thing that you have to be careful of when doing that, is seeing what drive letter the drive is recognized as under Windows, in terms of things like, where Station Playlist Studio scans the library from, but that's easy enough to fix. I have the same folder and file structure set up across all drives, so in my case, if one drive tanks, now that I have everything hooked up permanently, it's a simple switch around of the drive letter for my carts, scanning the library, top up folders, etc. and, we're back in business! Back in 2011, I didn't think that far ahead, as the 500 gig external hard drive was only 3-years-old at the time, and nowhere near being filled up, so figured it had a few more years of life remaining in it, and it would have, had I not knocked it over. Ironically, today, I would have outgrown that old 500 gig drive, as just my music collection alone, is nearly 500 gigs in size.
@celrock@carrottop1023@TSchulte it will most definitely work until I can get a bigger, external drive, at which point, it will be relocated back to my tablet, which is the reason I originally bought it.
@evilcookies98@carrottop1023@celrock yes it can, that's what I do. My main pc harddrive is only a 256 gig drive. If you use an external though, make sure ou fix the power settings on that drive to never turn off, otherwise you'll have weird pauses sometimes when you play music from the drive.
@evilcookies98 please please be careful with flash drives claiming to be 1 tb or more, especially under $80. there are lots of drive scams out there these days, even on reputable sites like amazon. search for well-known brands like lexarr, sandisk, or similar from only vendor sites or pages on stores like amazon. if it's sold by a company name you don't recognize, it may be less than reputable.
@evilcookies98 If you only need 1 TB, don't bother with spinning. Get an SSD. It's worth the extra money just for how not breakable it is in comparison, and how fast it will be. I also have a hard time believing that there is a 1 TB flash drive for $40. I don't know where you're seeing that, but I would suspect a scam.
@evilcookies98@simon might be alright to put things on but make damn sure you have it backed up somewhere because for that price, doubt they can be counted on.
@evilcookies98 lots of scams on amazon. highly unlikely that any major drive manufacturor is selling a 1 TB for that cheap. I just paid well over $100 for a 1 TB flash drive from Sandisk.
@evilcookies98 The SSD will run faster than the spinning drive. As for the SD card, be very, very careful before trusting it. There are stories all over the place of fake SD cards that claim to have a lot of space, for much cheaper than should be possible. These cards actually have a tiny amount of space, and either discard data written beyond the space they actually have, or overwrite earlier written data. In either case, it's bad news for you.
@jaybird110127 gotcha. It had a 4.7 out of five rating on Amazon, or I would’ve scrolled straight past it. I have a 128 GB SD card, but I’m going to need more space than that because of the tenancy of my music collection to expand every single week. the third alternative I was looking at is actually a USB stick. Sorry if I confused somebody or made a typo. Also, in the process of watching a Windows 11 installation that is moving, painfully slowly, or maybe that’s all of them. I don’t remember.
@evilcookies98 I don't know if it matters for just reading and writing data. I've used both and they're not bad. Mostly spinning HDD's though, both from Western Digital and Seagate. They're both OK.
@ChrisDuffley here’s what my main concern is. My main drive only has 64 GB of storage on it. My music folder alone would take up half of that. I need something to put my music on so I can still broadcast without it stuttering like a damaged CD.
@evilcookies98 I get that, but you can also adjust the buffer size in Studio to prevent these stutters. As for drives I don't think it matters. But you can also change the File Input options under Input options and also Event Times options to change the preloading of tracks. Then it won't matter at all for whatever drive. I don't think it would matter which. I do prefer SSD of course but either, just for playing and storing music, should work.
@ChrisDuffley gotcha. I’ve never faced an issue like this before, so I had no clue. I wasn’t even expecting a new computer until it was literally dropped into my hands. That’s not to say I didn’t need one. Mine is ancient and falling apart.
@Blobsta awesome. I’m also trying to save my relatives a little bit of money without endangering my data. They said something about helping me replace the drive I Kind of broke back in the summer.
@ratking gotcha. I’m just looking for something that will hold all of my stuff, let me broadcast my music, and not be slower than Methuselah is great great grandfather.
@evilcookies98 If you think you do I'd guess it's so, C looks pretty unique. These drives have cords for both A and c ports though so its' easy to swap.
@ratking well, I don’t know what else it could be, but I’ve also never owned a Windows laptop before. For all, I know, it could be one of those security lock things.
@ratking what do they look like? I wouldn’t know what to look for, but I’ve always suspected any mystery connectors of being some kind of random lock thing.
@evilcookies98 it kind of looks like a C port as well but a little longer and more oval shaped. I've only ever seen them near a corner though, never grouped in with other ports
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