How much is Roon worth? What investments should it displace?

[AndersVinberg]

I did the storage calculation, disk space vs. shelf space. This was two years ago, since then disk has gone down and real estate has gone up.

Cost of storage

People bring up the cost of storage. Storage is free, ok? A CD-quality album is about 3/4 GB, high res is a bit more, and DSD albums are typically 2 GB each; I’ll make it 1 GB per album, on average. Amazon sells a 3 TB drive for $90, so that’s 3 cents per album. What does it cost to store jewel cases? An IKEA Billy bookcase is $80, it is 31.5" (80 cm) wide, internal dimensions about 77 cm, a jewelcase is about 1 cm, six shelves, so 462 albums. But it uses floor space, 2.5 square feet, in Seat…