Posting Music? I don't know where to start. lol

After coming across this thread I decided to run a scan on my music player, total up how much music I take to work with me everyday. Here is the results.

Artists: 293
Albums: 816
Songs: 9,777
Total Run Time: 27 days, 22 hours, and 56 minutes
Total Disk Space: 50.0 GB

The majority of this stuff is either from the Christian side of music, or related to it in some way or another.

I got you beat. 4000+ albums. 😉

What are your methods of backing up all of that music!

External hard drive. Keeps it close and handy.

I use 6 external hard drives, and then once a year I back everything up to blu-ray discs as an extra layer of protection.

Wow, six? That seems like a lot I have a 1TB external drive that my daughter gave to me with a bunch of movies on it, and I transferred all my image files to it when my last laptop was breaking down. That sure came in handy! I did not think to transfer my music files also. Not that there are a lot of them... I can still do that

6 is not for total capacity. Each one is a copy of the other. That way if a drive starts to die, it's backed up. SMART told me that 3 of my drives over heated, and one had bad sectors. A drive with bad sectors needs to be replaced right away. This year I replaced 3 (ext4 formatted) drives, but two of them are reposed as just test drives that it don't matter if they fail. I also replaced a 4th drive (ntfs formatted) because it was also reporting some bad sectors, but that one seemed to have a format issue. It's also reposed as a test drive now.

My backups are sectioned out like this:
3 ext4 formatted drives for my Linux Systems.
3 ntfs formatted drives for my Windows System.
Blu-Ray for permanent backups. These are replaced once a year.

I got way too much data and music to start all over from scratch. Hard drives and SSDs tend to fail over time. One can not have too many backups.

They can if they can't afford that many.