I need a new hard drive for my music files. In the past, I have bought
external hard drives, but they tend to wear out rather quickly. Would
an internal be more durable, and what brands are the best?
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Kyle
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You may find that the USB or firewire enclosure may not expose all of
the drive's powersaving capabilities compared to fitting the drive
internally.
But whether that has good or bad effects on reliability is open to
debate!
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mflint
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(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index
IMHO it's heat that kills drive. An internal drive with a fan placed to
put airflow over the casing is best
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Kyle wrote:
> I need a new hard drive for my music files. In the past, I have bought
> external hard drives, but they tend to wear out rather quickly. Would
> an internal be more durable, and what brands are the best?
As others have posted, heat is the death of hard drives.
On one side, an exter
Kyle;216572 Wrote:
> I need a new hard drive for my music files. In the past, I have bought
> external hard drives, but they tend to wear out rather quickly. Would
> an internal be more durable, and what brands are the best?
The Western Digital "Raptor" is a very sturdy drive with a 5 year
war
my two cents-- when it comes to drives, don't go for the bargains. I
think it's all about quality manufacturers. I've worked with la cie
drives both professionally (i'm a television editor) and personally and
in my experience (ten years working with their drives) la cie drives are
consistently hig
haunyack;216589 Wrote:
> The Western Digital "Raptor" is a very sturdy drive with a 5 year
> warranty.
>
> I have been using 2 WDC36 & 2 WDC74 drives for nearly 3 years without a
> hitch.
> A drive that spins at 10,000 rpm and performs as flawlessly as these do
> has some great engineering behin
JJZolx;216595 Wrote:
> Compared with the newest 7200RPM drives available, WD Raptors are hot,
> noisy, and pricey per Gigabyte. I have several, but use them
> exclusively for system disks. Not recommended for music storage. IMO.
Hot - any drive runs warm without proper ventilation.
Noisy - my
Kyle;216572 Wrote:
> I need a new hard drive for my music files. In the past, I have bought
> external hard drives, but they tend to wear out rather quickly. Would
> an internal be more durable, and what brands are the best?
Your drives aren't "wearing out". They're failing. Drives do wear o
haunyack;216613 Wrote:
> Hot - any drive runs warm without proper ventilation.
10,000 RPM drives tend to run hotter than 7200 RPM drives. That's a
unavoidable byproduct of the higher spindle speed. If they were widely
available, for music storage I'd recommend going in the opposite
direction a
JJZolx;216614 Wrote:
> Your drives aren't "wearing out". They're failing. Drives do wear out
> over time, but it should take years. Are you carrying them around a
> lot or abusing them in any other way?
>
> Interesting article regarding heat and drives:
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007
Kyle;216653 Wrote:
> Not carrying them around, but if running all the time is considered
> abuse, then I guess I am abusing them. The latest failure is a Fantom
> drive that has become an "unrecognized USB device." It works
> intermittently and then is not recognized.
Sounds like it's the USB
I've been contemplating how to go about adding extra HD space as well.
I like the idea of putting two drives into something like the Thecus
N2050UD [I haven't confirmed that it has a fan yet] and two 500 GB
drives (using one to backup the other). I'm also thinking the drives
ought to be design
Jim Bailey;216677 Wrote:
> I've been contemplating how to go about adding extra HD space as well.
> I like the idea of putting two drives into something like the Thecus
> N2050UD [I haven't confirmed that it has a fan yet] and two 500 GB
> drives (using one to backup the other). I'm also thin
Jim Bailey;216677 Wrote:
> I've been contemplating how to go about adding extra HD space as well.
> I like the idea of putting two drives into something like the Thecus
> N2050UD [I haven't confirmed that it has a fan yet] and two 500 GB
> drives (using one to backup the other). I'm also thin
JJZolx;216661 Wrote:
> Sounds like it's the USB interface rather than the drive. You can
> probably pick up another USB enclosure for not much cash. Make sure
> you know the drive size (3.5" or 2.5") and whether the drive interface
> is SATA or IDE. You'll probably need to open the existing en
On 7/26/07, MrSinatra <
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for as much time as i put into ripping and archiving and generallly
screwing around and wasting time with my music, raid is the surefire
backup system i need. plus, it can backup my other data too. its
almost impossible to lose raid data, as l
Ben Sandee wrote:
> # sudo
> # rm -rf /
>
> Woops!
Don't even write that. I worked at a place, someone did just that, took
days to restore, wrote it on the wall, the boss came in and said
"interesting, I'll try it" and before we could all yell "NO" he did it.
Again.
Very ugly.
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Pat
http
i also only use raptors for system drives, and they are WELL WORTH IT
for that use.
i use www.tomshardware.com to review all manner of stuff and they do a
great job on drives.
i haven't done this yet, but i will get a raid box one day...
for as much time as i put into ripping and archiving and
After having to rerip my entire music collection about 18 months ago, I
now have two backups in two different locations. Keeping them all
synced is a pain, but I don't add music that often.
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Kyle
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