Hi, Very happy SB3 times 3 user here.
I have been running for about 3 years with a Linux "shoe-box" server and multiple usb drives with over a terabyte of storage. I use Clarkconnect linux. About 3,000 albums in mostly FLAC format. This weekend I suffered my third hard drive failure in three years. I've been using the Western Digital Essential usb external drives of late for ease of swapping out when they fail which seems to be about once year! I do have a backup to DVDs (about 100 per drive) which I am already restoring to a new drive. Still, this is time consuming and frustrating. I know many people have different strategies for dealing with this but for those of us with large collections it is very troubling. As long as we have to depend on spinning disks it would seem we are doomed to this sort of thing. I hold out hope that solid state storage may one day bring a new level of reliability to this situation but it may be a ways off in terms of cost effectiveness, etc. At least drives are cheap. I bought a 500 gb external replacement drive for $89 last night. I note that I can extend the warranty from 1 to 3 years for $25 through Western Digital. Usually, I don't pay for such things but I wonder if it would be prudent given my experience? Thoughts? -CB -- ctbarker32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ctbarker32's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
