Hi from not-so-sunny-at-the-moment Portugal, Would appreciate some views on the best way to go for hard disk storage for my toons. Currently running a nice quiet but elderly Sony Vaio 512MB laptop (so old it's USB 1.1!) under XP Pro with an external WD Passport 160GB USB disk as the server which works fine. But the disk is now full with close on 10,000 tracks and my external Lacie 250GB Big Disk on the main desktop computer doesn't have enough room to backup the data and the music files.
Figure I should aim for a couple of external 500GB (nominal) drives, one backing up the other, but not sure whether to just add USB drives or head down the NAS route. Cost IS an issue (I'm retired in Euro land and the UK pound is hurting LOTS . . .). Any views on recommended products / configurations? How are people backing up these sorts of file sizes? Windoze Backup tells me it wants 23 hours to backup the existing music files (assuming I had enough free space), even with the external drives connected via USB 2.0 on the desktop PC. What's the fastest (secure) way to backup? Is it faster via NAS? Thanks. Graeme PS For those interested : iTunes/Apple Lossless -> Linksys WAG54GX2 Wireless -> SB3/Classic + Controller -> CA DacMagic -> Naim NAC52 -> Naim 135s -> Dynaudio Contour 1.8 MkII; SB Boom for culinary duties inside and outside (weather permitting!) PPS If this has been covered before please point me at the thread - I had a quick Search but couldn't find anything appropriate (which doesn't mean it's not out there somewhere!) -- GRC Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it . . . SB3 / Naim / Dynaudio & some other stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59090 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
