agbagb;352924 Wrote: > ...why not just buy a 500gb HDD and use that as your source? True, if > you have a bunch of spare 250s around, it may be crazy to go and buy > yet another drive.AGB
The geek in me also suggests RAID5 for all those 250GB drives. I currently have 4 200GB SATA drives in RAID5 on about a $100 controller card. So I see ~600GB of usable space for music, and I can (and have) survive a single drive failure with no data loss, just a performance hit until I rebuild the array. No corruption protection, but it does keep you from losing it all just becuase a disk drops. Someone mentioned Drobo above - I have gotten rave reviews from several owners. That would give you the fault tolerance of RAID5 with the ability to swap in bigger disks as you need them, without having to break and rebuild the array like a traditional controller would require. Just more expensive for the enclosure. -- androidtopp My SB3 is the most expensive part of my stereo. So I'm not going to brag about it. And my SBB as well...Is it wrong that my alarm clock is worth more than most of my stereo components? I need to work on that. http://www.last.fm/user/androidtopp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ androidtopp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19681 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54110 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
