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amcluesent;323418 Wrote: > RAID5 with a good h/w controller with it's on battary-backed RAM would > seem sensible once your collection > 500Gb. The key work here is "Hardware Controller". Cheap software driven raid boards are nothing but trouble in my experience. Spend the $$. BTW, I beleive in the use of RAID, but if you only use your computer for your music, then you can get by without RAID. I have a large second drive installed and I automatically backup my OS and SYS files to it everyday. Nothing much changes so that works fine. As long as you back up your sys files (Windows)you can get everything right back to where it was fairly painlessly. Then I backup my music to an external drive (currently the BlacX) if I make any changes. BTW, the OS and music are on sperate hard drives. The OS and SC are on a fast 36GB drive by itself. Makes more sense to me. Have a great day, Howard -- Howard Passman Sorry slow to respond. I don't spend that much time online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
