# Storing old music (digital warehousing) **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [February 5, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963 "2013-02-05T01:08:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![antifmradio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/antifmradio/32/12592_2.png) [@antifmradio](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/antifmradio)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/1 "2013-02-05T01:08:54Z")
**Storing old music (digital warehousing)** Now here is a good question for all the DIGITAL djs out there. right now im looking at two folders i want to remove from my external drive. Combined they total about 300 gigs of just music. The music WAS for the radio station AND for my gigs but i really doubt im going to play any of these anytime soon. Usually in the REALLY OLD DAYS, i would just burn them all the CD and keep them in a CD book and tuck it away right? Well not this time so i impose to all of you a simple question. What are you doing with all your REALLY old tracks? How are you storing them without taking up any VALUABLE space in your equipment? Honestly i do have a tonne of blank DVDs and i could just burn them as mp3 to them but lets face it a DVD is around 4 - 8 gigs right? And here i have 300 gigs of music to get rid of so now what? ---
**Author:** ![antifmradio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/antifmradio/32/12592_2.png) [@antifmradio](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/antifmradio)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/2 "2013-02-05T01:10:22Z")
i swear if someone says “Just upload it to some cloud company” im going to hunt you down and ask “… dude.. for real?” because theres no way im going to upload that much stuff. Would take about 2 weeks to do that lol ---
**Author:** ![nubz69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@nubz69](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/nubz69)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/3 "2013-02-05T04:14:54Z")
it wouldn’t take as long as you think to use a cloud. Here are you options as I see it. 1. Cloud service 2. Extra HD (2TB is about $99 on sale) 3. Make a big torrent file and share it for a few months and hope it stays alive. ---
**Author:** ![SirReal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/sirreal/32/15235_2.png) [@SirReal](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/SirReal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/4 "2013-02-05T04:34:23Z")
I have 2x1TB drives as mirrored backups of all my music. Drive space is really cheap. ---
**Author:** ![SlvrDragon50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@SlvrDragon50](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/SlvrDragon50)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/5 "2013-02-05T04:53:37Z")
You can get even a 3 TB drive for 100-150 easily, but they’re not as stable as the 2 TB drives. External HDD are the way to go though. They’re so incredibly cheap now. ---
**Author:** ![mdcdesign](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/mdcdesign/32/12856_2.png) [@mdcdesign](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/mdcdesign)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/6 "2013-02-05T10:25:27Z")
I had the same dilemma with my photos a while back; 6 months of photos for me comes to - on average - around 200GB, and just buying more and more hard drives just isn’t feasible in the long run, plus drives fail eventually. I ended up getting an LTO tape drive; a 200GB LTO tape is around £5, and the drives aren’t much more expensive. The only issue is that the older (cheaper) drives are only SCSI, so you need PCI slots on your motherboard. If you’re running a PCI-E-only motherboard, or a laptop, you’re basically shit out of luck, unless you want to drop £1200 on a new LTO drive. ---
**Author:** ![SAFC2403](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@SAFC2403](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/SAFC2403)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/7 "2013-02-05T11:27:43Z")
I have a NAS drive which is basically network connected hard drive. Everytime i buy tracks a copy gets uploaded there and another onto the macbook. If i want to get rid of really old tunes off my macbook i can just delete them as i still have a copy on the network drive. The drive costs about £100. ---
**Author:** ![tekki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/tekki/32/12829_2.png) [@tekki](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/tekki)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/8 "2013-02-05T11:46:02Z")
External HDDs for me. ---
**Author:** ![photojojo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/photojojo/32/14618_2.png) [@photojojo](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/photojojo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/9 "2013-02-05T13:30:16Z")
External drive ---
**Author:** ![djchriswoods.co.uk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@djchriswoods.co.uk](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/djchriswoods.co.uk)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/10 "2013-02-05T13:36:35Z")
external ftw ---
**Author:** ![photojojo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/photojojo/32/14618_2.png) [@photojojo](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/photojojo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/storing-old-music-digital-warehousing/52963/11 "2013-02-05T13:39:18Z")
Another thing to note is that if it’s not at least moderately accesible there’s no point in even saving it. You could create an archive iTunes library that’s separate from your main library (if you use iTunes) and find stuff with a simple search.