dgstrat;169153 Wrote: > I'm running a PC, Laptop and Squeezebox from my router. The reason i > liked the Nas is the Raid capability and the hot swappable function. > It probably is overkill for me, though. Any alternate ideas? I've got > about 1700 plus cd's and I want to back everything up. Thanks in > advance. Personally, I wouldn't recommend RAID for music storage. The most important thing is to have a backup. Even with RAID storage, you need a backup. I would place a couple of large drives in the PC (assuming you're using it to run SlimServer), then use external drives for backup. If the internal drive(s) die, then you can run SlimServer using the external backup drive until you can get a replacement.
I'd estimate 1700s CD to require about 566 GB of storage at 0.33 per CD. That's a very rough guess - my 1400 CDs require about 0.3 GB per CD, but others will be more, depending on the type of music. So one 750 GB drive or two 400 GB drives will cover you with a decent amount of room to spare. Plan on the same for your external USB/Firewire backup drives. This will be a lot cheaper than an NAS. If you don't have room or connections available in the PC, then you might want to buy or build a machine to be used as a dedicated SlimServer. Place the operating system on a separate, small drive, say an 80GB, then add storage drives as above. This is _still_ cheaper than an NAS with RAID and will free up the other PC. If you're really stuck on RAID, then you can always mirror (RAID1) the storage drives in the dedicated server. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31522 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
