The Merc with the Lounge

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Waiting for something...

They make you wait 3 days before you can buy the gun there too huh?

 

[RLAAMJR.]

They make you wait 3 days before you can buy the gun there too huh?

Lol. I don't want to buy a gun. But if somebody gives one to me, I'd accept it.

 

[KevanG]

Man, backing up is important as hell. I lost 250 GB of DJ tunes when my last drive crashed. Now I'm paranoid as f*** so I have a 3 TB external, 1 TB external, 1 TB on my laptop, a 128 GB thumb drive, and I have a few homies I trust that I back up my ish on their stuff periodically as well. Never again will I lose tunes.

I have my writing backed up in three places...

Of course saving it in a universally recognized file would have been more useful. Stupid .docx files

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Lol. I don't want to buy a gun. But if somebody gives one to me, I'd accept it.

Man, you don't ever accept a gun someone "gives" to you. Are you out of your damn mind? That's how you get set up on a murder charge fool.

 

[RLAAMJR.]

Man, you don't ever accept a gun someone "gives" to you. Are you out of your damn mind? That's how you get set up on a murder charge fool.

Oh, I forgot about that. Thanks.

 

[Teelie]

I'm planning to get a Blu-ray burner to start backing up files on rewritable Blu-ray discs soon as well.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I'm planning to get a Blu-ray burner to start backing up files on rewritable Blu-ray discs soon as well.

That's way dated tech homie, external's are dirt cheap now. Hell, I keep seeing 1 TB SSD for less than $500 now which is crazy. I just want them to come down another hundo or so before I jump on it. I'm always watching for the deals though, Amazon Prime sometimes has killer ones.

 

[Greens]

Spending hundreds of dollars on storage is just too much for me. Bring the price down.

Until then, I will store my video files by drawing them out on cave walls.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Family videos and videos you work hard on to make deserve to be treated nicely.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

i don't give a crap about backing anything up besides my music. If I have a pic or video I put it up on Bookface and it's there forever. Music is the only important thing worth backing up.

 

[Teelie]

That's way dated tech homie, external's are dirt cheap now. Hell, I keep seeing 1 TB SSD for less than $500 now which is crazy. I just want them to come down another hundo or so before I jump on it. I'm always watching for the deals though, Amazon Prime sometimes has killer ones.

I already have an external 1 tb that is nearly filled up. Blu-Ray RW's would be long term storage that isn't frequently updated. That way I won't have to add even more harddrives. I already have a total of 4-5 TB of storage space including the backup. Besides a Blu-Ray RW can hold 20-40 gbs of space, much more than the DVD format can where you were stuck at 4.5 or 8 if it was DVD-R DL.

 

[Vartha]

I have a lot of internal drives and one external that holds 1 terabyte (really only 931 gigabytes) so I have that covered... mostly. I need another that holds at least as much if not more to keep my bases covered.

Fortunately these days such things are much cheaper than they used to be. I remember when harddrives held 3 gigs and that was "a lot."

But definitely, yes. No matter how confident or sure you are, always back up important files. I lost a few television shows and movies. Nothing irreplaceable or particularly hard to recover, although that is a major pain in the ass to redownload all of that. At least most of my relied-upon programs I already kept back ups of in another drive.

Sooner or later I'll need to get a Terabyte external lol I went through that re-downloading once when my old Tower's power supply died and took alot of the stuff I had on it with

 

[Teelie]

They are cheap. My newest one is not SSD but it is the same tiny form factor and only cost like $40 on sale at Best Buy last year.

 

[Vartha]

Yeah, I've seen the prices drop lol It's just every time they do they disappear FAST! There's a couple colleges in this area not to mention all the Venders for Walmart

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I already have an external 1 tb that is nearly filled up. Blu-Ray RW's would be long term storage that isn't frequently updated. That way I won't have to add even more harddrives. I already have a total of 4-5 TB of storage space including the backup. Besides a Blu-Ray RW can hold 20-40 gbs of space, much more than the DVD format can where you were stuck at 4.5 or 8 if it was DVD-R DL.

Bruh, I used to backup with disc. It's insanely cumbersome even if you were to max out the Blu-Rays potential of 200 GB which they don't do yet. You can pick up a 128 GB thumb drive for $25 on Amazon which is not only cheaper it's much safer in terms of not losing your data. Only downside is it's easy as f*** to lose the damn things.

Sooner or later I'll need to get a Terabyte external lol I went through that re-downloading once when my old Tower's power supply died and took alot of the stuff I had on it with

Don't even waste your time with 1 TB homie, you can snag a WD 3 TB external drive that's meant for in-home use for $100 on Amazon Prime right now. I'll let you use my Prime account if you want so you get free 2-day delivery too.

I was actually considering doing a full on NAS backup running RAID-6 just because I'm that paranoid about losing my damn music again haha.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Yeah, I've seen the prices drop lol It's just every time they do they disappear FAST! There's a couple colleges in this area not to mention all the Venders for Walmart

See above post and this link:

http://smile.amazon.com/Book-Deskto...4931&sr=1-6&keywords=3+tb+external+hard+drive

SSD is really not needed unless you are in a situation where you're hard on your drives like myself who takes them out to gigs and whatnot.

 

[KevanG]

I picked up a 2TB HDD a few years back for $120. I went in to get a 1tb but a 2tb was right beside it for $20 more.

I've filled up half with digital comics of all sorts. It's now reference material for my writing.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I'm a music hoarder and one can never have enough digital space.

 

[KevanG]

I probably have a few hundred GBs of music as well. Me likey variety.

 

[RLAAMJR.]

I'm a music hoarder and one can never have enough digital space.

I'm a music hoarder and one can never have enough digital space.

Any Celine Dion songs in your collection?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So my roommates son, his wife and his kid from his first marriage moved into the house for a bit. The kid is like 5 or 6 best I can tell. My God, does he never shut the f*** up. I'm always cordial and kids are cool and all but damn having to listen to him talk all the time is annoying as crap. And they just go along with it.

I seem to recall many games and things done to get little kids to get them to shut the hell up for a bit without screwing them up later in life. I understand it's not okay to walk out of my room and just duct tape his mouth shut, but I would like to enjoy a little peace and quiet when I get home from work.

 

[KevanG]

I don't. There's a reason every pawn shop/used music shop has a billion of her CDs around here.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Any Celine Dion songs in your collection?

Not sure why you felt it necessary to quote me twice but yes, I have several remixes and mashups of hers. My personal fave is the music from Radiohead's Creep with her vocals from the power of love. That one always gives me a chuckle.

Honestly, though, besides the stuff of hers that's in my 90's collection most of it is just used as dancefloor clearers or just to make other DJs laugh and f*** with people.

 

[Fallen Angel]

How is the Hype's second best DJ doing tonight?

 

[RLAAMJR.]

Not sure why you felt it necessary to quote me twice but yes, I have several remixes and mashups of hers. My personal fave is the music from Radiohead's Creep with her vocals from the power of love. That one always gives me a chuckle.

Honestly, though, besides the stuff of hers that's in my 90's collection most of it is just used as dancefloor clearers or just to make other DJs laugh and f*** with people.

I see. That's great to know.

I was gonna quote you and Kevan. I made a mistake.