Backing Up Drum Samples
To most music producers and beat makers, one of the highest-value collections of sounds on our computers is the drum samples we adore. Having built hundreds and maybe thousands of drum samples - and storing many more - it is no wonder that many would simply not know what to do if the hard drive that stores these samples crashed. A lot of the songs we make often do not save drum samples and other external sounds along with the project, so it can be hard, if not impossible, to ever recover such sounds from the jaws of a crashed hard drive.
If you plan to store all of your music, samples and documents on your computer hard drive and nowhere else, you'll be in for a lot of trouble some time down the track. Computer vendors have advertised the five-year lifetime rate (mean rate, not average rate) for hard drives as a push to consumers: you should back up sooner rather than later. Don't keep putting it off. In any case, you should not store everything just on this drive, especially if it's your main one, too.
If you are truly set on using your computer's main hard drive for storing all of your music, you should take a number of precautions. The main point to consider the defragmentation of the hard drive. Doing this regularly will help you maximize the lifespan of your hard drive, so if cost is any factor, do this and you may be good until you can afford to back up properly and store your things on another drive.
If you want a smaller medium to store your drum samples, should you consider flash USB drives? Probably not. They are great for storage, keeping files for five to ten years without issue, and so this is a great way to start any back-up on a budget, but they are very easy to lose. That, and they are a bit unstable for constant throughput and requests from your audio applications. If you need to use them, chain them to your keys to prevent loss.
CDs and DVDs - the rewritable kind - are great as a backup solution for most people that don't have huge amounts of ever-changing data on their computers, but are not ideal at being the sole location for your drum samples or other data. The reason why is that programs will not write to them on the fly.
A second hard drive can be a great all-round solution. It will provide a good way to back up your drum samples and use them at the same time. You can still keep the samples somewhere on the main hard drive and even a flash USB drive, but having them on a second hard drive (internal or external) will give you great speed and peace of mind, as hard drives that do not have OS files are not as stressed as the ones that do, like your PC's main hard drive. - 18423
If you plan to store all of your music, samples and documents on your computer hard drive and nowhere else, you'll be in for a lot of trouble some time down the track. Computer vendors have advertised the five-year lifetime rate (mean rate, not average rate) for hard drives as a push to consumers: you should back up sooner rather than later. Don't keep putting it off. In any case, you should not store everything just on this drive, especially if it's your main one, too.
If you are truly set on using your computer's main hard drive for storing all of your music, you should take a number of precautions. The main point to consider the defragmentation of the hard drive. Doing this regularly will help you maximize the lifespan of your hard drive, so if cost is any factor, do this and you may be good until you can afford to back up properly and store your things on another drive.
If you want a smaller medium to store your drum samples, should you consider flash USB drives? Probably not. They are great for storage, keeping files for five to ten years without issue, and so this is a great way to start any back-up on a budget, but they are very easy to lose. That, and they are a bit unstable for constant throughput and requests from your audio applications. If you need to use them, chain them to your keys to prevent loss.
CDs and DVDs - the rewritable kind - are great as a backup solution for most people that don't have huge amounts of ever-changing data on their computers, but are not ideal at being the sole location for your drum samples or other data. The reason why is that programs will not write to them on the fly.
A second hard drive can be a great all-round solution. It will provide a good way to back up your drum samples and use them at the same time. You can still keep the samples somewhere on the main hard drive and even a flash USB drive, but having them on a second hard drive (internal or external) will give you great speed and peace of mind, as hard drives that do not have OS files are not as stressed as the ones that do, like your PC's main hard drive. - 18423
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