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Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide - Meridian Audio

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Appendix 3: Storage<br />

<strong>Sooloos</strong> systems currently provide a number of options for storage.<br />

<strong>Sooloos</strong> <strong>Collections</strong>: <strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

• MC200 and Control:15 provide approximately 500GB<br />

and have single drives built in.<br />

• MC600 and Twinstore have dual 1TB or 2TB drives and these aree normally configured as RAID 1,<br />

which means that each drive<br />

is a mirror copy of the other. Mirrored drives are helpful because at<br />

some point drives inevitably<br />

fail, it is often possible just to swap out the faulty drive whereupon the<br />

system will restore the mirror.<br />

• Content will be shared across all the drives in the system.<br />

The default format in which <strong>Sooloos</strong> stores the audio is FLAC<br />

which is a lossless codec that provides around<br />

40% reduction in space usage (depending on sample rate, bit depth and genre) with zero loss of quality.<br />

The system can also handle Apple Lossless, WAVV and AIFF lossless formats. The lossless files will be exported<br />

in their native format and so it is sensible to plann ahead on future requirements for the content.<br />

You can sett up the system to<br />

automatically transcode<br />

an<br />

additional lossy format of all the<br />

music which can then be exported<br />

to a drive for use with other media<br />

players or iTunes.<br />

Plan ahead here because the<br />

system will take some time t to<br />

perform a transcode (typical<br />

conversionss may be 10, ,000 –<br />

20,000 songs in 24 hours).<br />

How much Storage?<br />

The following table gives<br />

a guideline to sensible planning levels.<br />

FLAC/ALAC lossless<br />

AIFF/WAV<br />

FLAC/ALAC + AAC/MP3<br />

AIFF/WAV + AAC/MP3<br />

500GB<br />

1,000 CDs<br />

600 CDs<br />

800 CDs<br />

500 CDs<br />

1TB<br />

2,000 CDs<br />

1,250 CDs<br />

1,600 CDs<br />

1,000 CDs<br />

2TB<br />

4,0000 CDs<br />

2,5000 CDs<br />

3,2000 CDs<br />

2,0000 CDs<br />

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