--- Ultramog
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've been SB2/Slimserving for a couple months, very
> happy camper. Local
> OSX drive is filling up and I calculate I'll need
> about 500GB for the
> current collection, which grows steadily. Should I
> get:
>
> 1) A 500GB external drive and then another after
> that's filled and
> storage costs have continued to drop? Will
> SlimServer maintain a
> library over multiple drives?
>
> 2) A NAS?
>
> 3) Something else...
>
> TIA.
I suggest whatever your end-solution, you also have a
backup/duplication plan with that large of a library.
One you tag, sort and preen your large library, you
want to keep it safe, duplicated and/or rebuildable in
the event of a catastrophe that are so common with
Hard disks these days. Options can consist of RAID-5
storage on an array (external etc), or buy 2 of
whatever primary storage solution you go with and keep
a duplicate on the second for backup purposes and
periodically update and increment changes, etc.
Whatever you do, just have a second version of your
library somewhere so that WHEN YOUR DISASTER STRIKES
(and it WILL happen), you should be able to replace
the entire library without much fuss.
I have a large library and presently I have one
machine dedicated as a SLIM server that has a Firewire
800 MicroNET 1TB RAID-5 array hanging off of it. I
also have a Windows Media Center PC machine that has
one of those 500GB LaCie Bigger Disk Extremes with
triple interface connected via FireWire 800 which also
acts as a secondary recording Hard Drive for TV/Movies
on the MCE.
When changes are made to the primary music library
(the MicroNET/Slimserver library) they are
automagically made on the MCE library via Microsoft's
Free SyncToy utility that increments and executes
differences in directory tree structures. This is just
the way I do things... I'm sure every person in this
forum has their own unique way of protecting, sorting
& treating their own libraries. To defend against
criticism & flaming in advance, I AM NOT saying what I
am doing is better, wiser, safer, more efficient,
smarter or the like. I am just saying that this is
what I DO. Ok, flame away!!
-- D
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