pablolie wrote: >>I don't understand. I was in the local CompuSA store yesterday >> Seagate 200GB disks for $35 each ... > > Cost is not the issue. The biggest mirrored drive I could get when I > bought my Netgear SC101 was 400GB, I got 2 of them - now the largest > one is 500GB. It simply is not large enough to house my collection > -losslessly- and allow for headroom for growth.
And your enviroment won't let it span drives? As I said, I have my songs on three separate drives, all linked to appear as a unified libary. So why not have several of the mirrored drive sets? Of course, if you want to keep it on a router or other restricted box, that may be different. I have mine on an old PC running Mandriva. I can use NFS to mount disks all over the house into a single system. If it is a limitation of the Netgear, then its not a limitation of the SlimServer or SqueezeBox > I, on the other hand, think it is utter lunacy to not house a CD > collection of several hundred CDs on redundant media. My point was that RAID is not a backup solution. And unless it is setup and administered properly, it is no more secure or reliable than using a single disk. > Different strokes for different folks. I still like to listen to the CD > itself when the audio quality is the primary consideration. I never listen to CDs, I use my squeezeboxes. When I get serious, my SB1/g goes thru a Benchmark DAC-1. If I had not wanted to buy the DAC-1 anyway, if I had a SB2 or SB3, I might not bother. Bits are bits, transports are obsolete. I'm not following how you jump from audio quality to redundancy to reliability at once. They are different issues that one can decide to implement or not as your strokes require. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
