Michaelb4 Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 I have a Sonicorbiter with an internal hard drive. The drive is 1TB of which 700gb has been used. How full should I run the drive and does something bad happen. If I fill it up? Link to comment
cjf Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I would say now is the time to look for additional storage space. Depending on how the internal drive is configured of the orbiter you could run into issues with it booting up when it fills up. For example, if the music is stored on the same volume of the OS. If the music is stored on a different volume then the OS then there isn't really much harm in it filling up short of maybe slower disk access times/speed and not being able to save anymore data to it until space free'd up. My Audio System -Last Updated May 20 2021 Link to comment
jcbenten Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Years ago the recommendation was to not go over 80% (swap file issues?). My NAS starts sending messages at 85%. A spinning HD will start grinding and gets very slow when near full. I have no idea if SSDs have the same limitations. davide256 1 QNAP TS453Pro w/QLMS->Netgear Switch->Netgear RAX43 Router->Ethernet (50 ft)->Netgear switch->SBTouch ->SABAJ A10d->Linn Majik-IL (preamp)->Linn 2250->Linn Keilidh; Control Points: iPeng (iPad Air & iPhone); Also: Rega P3-24 w/ DV 10x5; OPPO 103; PC Playback: Foobar2000 & JRiver; Portable: iPhone 12 ProMax & Radio Paradise or NAS streaming; Sony NWZ ZX2 w/ PHA-3; SMSL IQ, Fiio Q5, iFi Nano iDSD BL; Garage: Edifier S1000DB Active Speakers Link to comment
davide256 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Agree with @jcbenten Time to upgrade to a 2TB or larger drive before you hit 85%. And make sure your backup needs are covered for the new size drive... Regards, Dave Audio system Link to comment
Popular Post ssh Posted February 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2021 My advice is to skip the 2TB and go straight to 4 (or more) TB. John Dyson and rando 2 SSH Link to comment
rando Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 There is good reason to keep your eye out with no real pressure to buy. 4TB would be a reasonable low end to purchase. Or grab a $45 1TB WD Blue at Microcenter and wait out the madness. Whatever works best for you so long as you avoid basically any 3TB drive. Do some calculation, including disk formatting loss, of your long term increase in storage requirements. 700mb RBCD PCM compressed into flac is not going to pile up very fast. DXD or any of the DSD rates will swallow up TB's. Link to comment
Michaelb4 Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 Thank you will be upgrading storage. Link to comment
Dan Gravell Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 It might be worth looking into "shucking"... bliss - fully automated music organizer. Read the music library management blog. Link to comment
mwheelerk Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I'm curious about this in terms of how much percentage of an external drive should be used before replacing with a bigger drive? 75%? 90%? "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." Frank Zappa Link to comment
AnotherSpin Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 2 hours ago, mwheelerk said: I'm curious about this in terms of how much percentage of an external drive should be used before replacing with a bigger drive? 75%? 90%? Remove unnecessary files and you'll be fine. Link to comment
mwheelerk Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 I'm thinking in regards to the SSD I use to house my digital files. All the files are necessary and will only continue to grow. My files are lossless so take up much less room than non-compressed files (WAV, AIFF). I am only currently using 1.2GB of a 2GB SSD so I am good for now but wondered at which point I should make a change to a larger SSD. "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." Frank Zappa Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 On 10/27/2022 at 3:30 PM, mwheelerk said: I'm thinking in regards to the SSD I use to house my digital files. All the files are necessary and will only continue to grow. My files are lossless so take up much less room than non-compressed files (WAV, AIFF). I am only currently using 1.2GB of a 2GB SSD so I am good for now but wondered at which point I should make a change to a larger SSD. I have heard it was 50% of a drive being used is when a bigger one should be sought. I don't know how old that info is however. No electron left behind. Link to comment
jabbr Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 On 2/4/2021 at 6:21 PM, Michaelb4 said: I have a Sonicorbiter with an internal hard drive. The drive is 1TB of which 700gb has been used. How full should I run the drive and does something bad happen. If I fill it up? I run "smartctl" on my drives, and as soon as they start to exhibit errors, in particular when "reallocated_sector_cnt" and "pending_sectors" start to go up then replace the drive with a newer bigger one Custom room treatments for headphone users. Link to comment
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