I just have an external Firewire drive hooked to my Mac Mini. The Mac
can share out the drive as an SMB volumen (Windows file share) so you
should be able to get to everything on it from the PC just as easily.
Another thing to consider is how reliable the storage has to be. If the
drive fails, what is the impact. Will you have to re-rip all your CDs
and such? For me right now it's not that critical but I've been thinking
about going to a Drobo down the road if the 500GB drive I have now fills
up. The Drobo has slots for multiple hard drives and it mirrors the data
across them. If one of the drives fails it transparently continues on
with the remaining drives. When the failed drive is replaced the
mirroring is reconstructed. I think the smallest 4-slot version is about
$300 empty. That also means I can add capacity over time and eventually
retire older smaller drives, if they don't fail first. Of course this
doesn't help if the Drobo is knocked off the table or whatever. So it
might still make sense to have backups. My drive is mostly rips of media
so while I'd hate to waste the time doing all that again, it's not
irreplaceable. For that I use time machine to backup to a hard drive on
another mac on my home network.
CB
On 7/5/11 1:05 PM, David Hole wrote:
Hi folks.
I'm on my way to buy storage for all my stuff (especially my music library).
What's the best way to go? I have lots of computers (4, 3 in use - 1
Windows and 2 Macs).
So far, I'll go for using iTunes as the primary music application -
wich also have its issues, but if needed, I'll change to something
else if there are.
I'll choose between a NAS wich I'll connect to my network, or a
USB-disc that I can connect to only one of my computers.
Anyone who have been out for this case and have good solutions?
I'm open for almost everything, as long as it's as compatible to
everything as possible.
Kind regards David.
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