OK I here i disagree sligthly :) I'm a bit ludite here i like 3,5" enclosures with a lump of PSU just don't trust any laptop derived tech.
And to op. Yes running your own server is superior to use tan USB drive directly to the PC . SBS will probably perform much better regardless of drive, at least compared to use directly to the Touch it's not that critical anymore. There are other criteria here . Quality ? don't have extensive insights the computer pros's on this forum have much more knowledge than me . And aesthetics nice looking and no external psu is important for some people. But the general consensus is to use a good backup strategy so you are looking for >2 drives one to use and >=one for backup(s) . This is a fact eventually all hard-drives fail or something else fails and corrupt the data, given enough time this will happen. If you spent 100's of hours tagging and ripping you don't want that. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89741 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
