------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: How often do you have hard drive failures of your music server? - 1 or more a year - 2 or more in mutliple years - Never - All the time ------------------------------------------------------------------------
i don't have an opinion as to which drive you should purchase but I wanted to add my two cents. I have a couple of friends who work for a data recovery company. Their mantra is that all drives fail-some manufacturers have a better rep than others but all manufacturers sell drives that die. Therefore the most important thing is to have a proper backup strategy. my own setup: two 500 gig external la cie firewire 800 drives. I'm on a mac so I use a program called deja vu to backup my music every night. deja vu does a good job of keeping the two music directories perfectly in sync. I also have an internal mirror drive of my main system hard drive. I use a program called superduper to backup my main system drive every night as well. so if my main system died I would just switch over to the mirror and keep on going. and this actually happened to me about six months ago when my original main hard drive died. But since I had a perfect mirror, the transfer from one drive to the other was seamless. my personal feeling is that a RAID setup is overkill. I work with RAIDS professionally and they do work well but in a home environment it's not necessary. good luck. -- exile ------------------------------------------------------------------------ exile's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4579 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
