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From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I disagree here. The cost of management is basically a cost per
item (or
file). The number of bytes in a file has little effect.
As storage disks get bigger, the same number of files on the same
number
of disks can be of higher quality with no extra cost.
A high quality file might be at most six times the size of a low
quality
audio file. Now compare the change in disk capacity from the 5 1/4
inch
floppies of 20 years ago to the DVDs of today.
Almost correct...but not quite! There still exists an effective "per
byte" cost for stored files...a 500GB drive costs more than a 40GB,
and a DVD-RW more than a CD-RW.
I have about 80,000 78 sides to (eventually) archive in digital form.
As moderate-quality MP3 files of, say, 500KB each...I would need
about 40,000MB...or 40GB, which I could store on a single not-too-
expensive drive. Wav files would be (I think) about 20 times the
size, or .8TB (for I don't know how much...).
Steven C. Barr