Valence Art Director Internal Image Integration

[AndersVinberg]

I do.

In 2017 I did this calculation:

@AndersVinberg

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 Seattle where I live the median house price is $447 per square foot (Zillow), so the total storage cost for 462 jewelcases is $80 + 2.5 * $447 = $1,197, or $2.60 per album.

Since 2017 hard drive cost has halved and real estate cost has increased by 60%.

If an image is lost and it takes ten minutes to locate it on the internet, at minimum wage that’s a couple of bucks, and I don’t think many of us work at minimum wage.