What's the point of having external box unless you stream music from a
laptop?
funkstar Wrote:
another option would be a Thecus N2050
(http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=1pid=3) this will take
two drives and can be attached with either eSATA or USB2. Or the N2100
which is a two
different strokes for different folks. The N2050 also has USB2 so eSATA
on a laptop/desktop is required.
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snarlydwarf Wrote:
The catch is that there is no clock in that data. There isn't a
seperate line saying okay, here comes the next bit! which would get
rid of the jitter argument completely. And because even the crystals
that control timing are not -exactly- accurate, you can see errors
norderney Wrote:
I have been thinking of getting a 1Tb external Lacie drive. Lacie seem
to be the only people making 1Tb external hard drives.
Do I have any other options other than Lacie for 1Tb?
thanks
andrew smith
If you do go down the Lacie route I would strongly recommend
That's what the Altmann UPCI does - it strips out the SPDIF clock and
injects a new clock right at the input to the DAC...
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norderney Wrote:
I have been thinking of getting a 1Tb external Lacie drive. Lacie seem
to be the only people making 1Tb external hard drives.
Do I have any other options other than Lacie for 1Tb?
Well, the LaCie probably isn't really a 1TB drive. It's actually
multiple drives in a
Create a RAID 1 setup (i.e. mirroring), load all of the music on the
array.
Break the array, and store the mirror copy in the closet until the
active drive fails.
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I personally also like seagate drives. They are quite quiet, and have a
5 year warranty.
A great resource is www.storagereview.com. They have a reliability
survey that I encourage everyone to use. Lots of times there's not a
whole lot of data for a particular drive, but if there is a lemon
norderney Wrote:
I have been thinking of getting a 1Tb external Lacie drive. Lacie seem
to be the only people making 1Tb external hard drives.
Do I have any other options other than Lacie for 1Tb?
no-one make 1TB drives. the largest capacity *single drive* is the
Seagate 750gig. The
I have been thinking of getting a 1Tb external Lacie drive. Lacie seem
to be the only people making 1Tb external hard drives.
Do I have any other options other than Lacie for 1Tb?
thanks
andrew smith
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No one has mentioned this yet, but a slient drive would contribute
benefit a good sound systm.
I recall one of the users on this forum was using this Smart Drive
Copper hard drive enclosure.
http://www.3dgameman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36104
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agentsmith Wrote:
No one has mentioned this yet, but a slient drive would contribute
benefit a good sound systm.
I recall one of the users on this forum was using this Smart Drive
Copper hard drive enclosure.
http://www.3dgameman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36104
Silence was a big
ezkcdude Wrote:
I use Seagate. Definitely do not go with Western Digital, if you value
your music collection.
Ditto on the Seagate. Very quiet and reliable. Hopefully this doesn't
change since they bought Maxtor...
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I'll chime in here, too, as I just had my first drive failure. I have
14 drives in my house right now, and just yesterday a 250GB WD in a
Linux raid-5 setup (my music server, no less) died. My other Linux
Raid-5 setup is all Seagate, as are most of my other drives. Never had
a Seagate fail.
Manufacturers go in and out of favor. Most if not all have become
notorious for one line or another.
What I think is my most rational inclination is that hard drives from
major manufacturers are are interchangeable commodities, and few of us
have experience a with a large enough sample of
Clearly disks fail. You don't really want to lose all the work you put
into ripping and tagging your collection, so if you are smart you will
have a good backup strategy. With disks at about 33 cents/GB backing
up to another disk is cheap and easy.
What I've done is simple. I have a server
Mitch Harding Wrote:
I've been using the 120GB enterprise class WD drives in a RAID 10 array
for
a while now and haven't had any drive failures.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=2
And I certainly hope you won't have any in the future!
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So far so good (a couple of yeas).But that's the main reason I also went with the RAID. I expect drives to fail eventually, but hopefully not more than one at once.My next step is to add a backup strategy, preferably in a different physical location. Then I will be content.
On 6/13/06, ezkcdude
I've been using the 120GB enterprise class WD drives in a RAID 10 array for a while now and haven't had any drive failures.http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=2
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wrote:I use Seagate. Definitely do not go with Western Digital, if you value
your music
My employer manufactures and sells broadcast graphics systems. Many of
our systems have attached RAID 5 arrays in support of video clip
record/playback capability. These run from 144 GB to 1 TB.
Because of very high bandwidth requirements we can only use Seagate
15,000 RPM SCSI drives. For boot
I've had a Lacie external for the last 2 years and its been replaced
once and repaired twice and its still playing up. So I'm looking
elsewhere now as I'm a little disappointed to say the least with it's
reliability.
I'm looking at the ReadyNAS NV now which I think uses Seagate hdd's,
which I
snarlydwarf Wrote:
Guess I should explain jitter for grins and cause I'm bored :P
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Great explanation!
I wish I could go back in time and tell those early audio digital
designers to check out what the computer industry was doing - a) error
correcting codes on data streams and b)
blah509 Wrote:
OK then...from a reliablity standpoint. What are the boards picks?
I think it goes in cycles. Anyone remember Seagate's old problems with
sticktion? IBM has been mentioned, they actually made great drives
until the deathstar line.
I'm seeing lots of dead Maxtors these days (I
ezkcdude Wrote:
I use Seagate. Definitely do not go with Western Digital, if you value
your music collection.
Too much of a generalization. The Raptor series from WD is both
blazing-fast and quite solidly reliable; but their smallish maximum
size makes them a suboptimal choice for the
With hard drives, you only care about noise, heat, and reliability. Only
certain model of certain brand, namely old IBM glass disc drives, has
higher than average failure rate. WD, Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM, and Seagate
all have similar failure rate nowadays. If someone claims some brands
are not good,
I've used a mix of Seagates and Western Digitals over the years, and
none have ever failed. Luck, I guess... the fact is, any manufacturer
can make a bad drive, but most drives made are fine. So this kind of
anecdotal evidence is pretty useless for making an informed decision.
Personally, my
Roy2001 Wrote:
1. Don't run HD for music 24/7. No HD would last forever, if you are
not listening to music, find out way to turn off HD you are not using.
In that way, HD's would last almost forever.
Actually quite the opposite. It's powering up and down which puts the
most strain on a
dean blackketter wrote:
(My money's on Maxtor, that's the brand I've had the worst experience
with.)
Yeah, me too. I've had loads of them fail.
In fact, that reminds me, I've got an RMA to create ...
R.
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Nope, not Maxtor, but I don't think we have any of those. As I alluded
to in my original post, it's WD. It's surprising to me, because Seagate
and WD seemed to have reversed in the last several years, in terms of
reliability.
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I had very bad experience with early (5 years ago) Maxtor NAS units.
They were Windoze NT based and the software failed repeatedly.
Not sure about reliability of individual hard drive units though.
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agentsmith
The hard drive won't affect sound quality. If it returns bits different
from the ones you put on it, it is broken.
The only way that it would have any effect at all is if your PC was in
your listening area and the drive was noisy.
Look for 'reliable' (you don't want it to crash and eat your
then why spend thousands of dollars on different cd transports if the
ones and zeros come out the same?
The same argument can then be said for different digital interconnects
such as Toslink and Coax can't it? They are just distributing ones and
zeros, aren't they?
Not being rude, just curious.
I use Seagate. Definitely do not go with Western Digital, if you value
your music collection.
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I actually do have a loyalty, to Seagate. I've been buying drives for a
long time, and have long ago given up on WD. Maxtor aren't bad but
they're very noisy, the Samsung's are pretty good though. But Seagate
are quiet, large, often discounted and have a 5 year warranty (none of
the others do for
snarlydwarf Wrote:
Guess I should explain jitter for grins and cause I'm bored :P
A hard drive doesn't (assuming it works) have that problem: it has
external timing. In addition to the 8-64 bits that it transfers at
once (ld MFM drives like the ST506 transferred 8 bits at a time but
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