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With Terabyte drives so cheap these days, there's no good reason not to do a mirror. My best advice is similar to what everybody's saying. Mirror! I currently have a mirror for all my data, running two SEAGATE drives (seagate has a 5 year warranty, and a good track record from what I've seen). The minute one failes, you send it back, get a new one, pop it in, repair the mirror, and continue like nothing happened. Avoid software raid- those will cause nothing but problems. Hardware raid only- and don't go cheap. Expect to spend at least $75 - $150 on the raid controller alone. As awlways- http://www.newegg.com (I am not affiliated with Newegg, but they are cheap!) -- FredFredrickson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FredFredrickson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16584 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
