1TB, I'm impressed. I've still not broken the 500GB barrier, currently on one external drive, and I think at this point storage availability will always outstrip my ability to fill it. However, back when drives were smaller and more expensive, I had to span my collection across multiple drives. I'd split my collection alphabetically among the drives. As I ran out of space, I would replace the smallest drive in the set with a new one. In my last setup, I think I had a 320G, 200G, and 160G. This was something of a pain, but I was not willing to spend the money on a single drive to hold the whole collection until last summer.
This was all in FreeBSD, so I was able to have my actual music folder be just a directory of soft links to the actual artist directories on the music drives. This was nice because when browsing the music folder it was as if I had one big drive (at the expense of having to maintain the soft links). It sounds like you're in Windows, and I don't think it has such facilities available. If you did something like this using Windows I think you'd just have shortcuts to the two (or three) music folders on the different drives, so your main music folder would look like this: A-M (drive 1) N-Z (drive 2) Or you could wait for 2TB drives to come out. -- eq72521 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eq72521's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48999 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
