Clearly disks fail. You don't really want to lose all the work you put into ripping and tagging your collection, so if you are smart you will have a good backup strategy. With disks at about 33 cents/GB backing up to another disk is cheap and easy.
What I've done is simple. I have a server machine that lives in a spare room. That is one of the big benifits of the squeezebox and means I don't have to worry about noise or heat very much. Internally, I have a 320GB drive that holds all my "media," as my digital music collection grows it will probably just hold music. I bought this drive because it seemed the best balance of size and cost per GB at the time. I have the same disk in an external enclosure connected by USB. Once a week (or more if I am doing a lot of ripping) the internal drive is automatically backuped. That way I never forget. When my collection becomes to large to fit on the 320, I'll put the external one inside. By that time much bigger disks will be cheap and I'll get one of those to use externally. I prefer this solution to RAID because the most important thing RAID gives you is no downtime for a disk failure. I don't need that, but do like being protected from doing stupid stuff like accidentally deleting some important file. Or a virus. Other reasonable people feel the other way. Scott -- smnettles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smnettles's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3332 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
