Thanks for the input guys. Have pretty much decided to buy a pair of Western Digital My Book 500GB Home Edition drives which are on special offer down here for 88 euros (approx £78 sterling, US$113). These have USB + Firewire + eSata connectivity which gives me some options and should keep me going for a couple of years at least.
I think I'll keep all the "smarts" on PCs and stick to "dumb" disks on the KISS principle, of which I'm a big fan. Don't really need NAS because the laptop server is virtually silent and on most of the day. Regarding backup times, I did a test with Windows Backup and did my 110GB library in about 4 hours from a WD Passport 160GB to a Lacie Big Disk 250GB both external via USB2.0 on a friends new-ish laptop under XP Pro. Not too bad overnight I guess. And yes - my disks are regularly defragged and I always make sure there is enough space on the destination drive so that Windows does not have to compress (even though it may decide to do so anyway). So thank you and good night, or -obrigado e boa noite- as we say around these 'ere parts. Graeme -- GRC Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it . . . SB3 / Naim / Dynaudio & some other stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59090
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