[dmk005]

If you are like me, your music collection requires something more than your computer hard drive by now. Have you installed a Network Attached Storage (NAS) or other RAID-type Storage Area Network (SAN)?

I ask this because I currently have 250GB of music on a LACIE network hard drive but this drive is not currently mirrored or backed up for faster/more efficient access/management. Hard drive life span on avg is 5 years so I want to plan redundancy now.

Please provide links to web available products whenever possible.

 

[epaludo]

I use a simple maxtor 320GB external hard drive ...

 

[krmathis]

I back up my files to a 160GB (2.5") external Firewire disk.

 

[jules650]

I have two 320GB disks and my FLAC archive is mirrored on each one.

 

[nelamvr6]

I Use an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ with 4 500GB HDD's providing 1.3TB of storage in an X-Raid, which provides data security and very flexible upgrades.

 

[dmk005]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nelamvr6 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I Use an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ with 4 500GB HDD's providing 1.3TB of storage in an X-Raid, which provides data security and very flexible upgrades.

Slick SAN solution! I think I need to head the same direction. Where did you acquire yours?

 

[pkshiu]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nelamvr6 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I Use an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ with 4 500GB HDD's providing 1.3TB of storage in an X-Raid, which provides data security and very flexible upgrades.

Same here. Bought empty drive with 1G memory from amazon. (Same price from Infrant direct. no discount). Bought drives from online stores when they are on sale.Currently cheapest is about $119 for 500 Seagate 500G SATA2.

 

[bhjazz]

External 200GB Western Digital HD.

 

[java]

External 120gig USB HDD, soon to be upgraded to 320gig ...

 

[nickknutson]

I've got a 160gb external USB-powered HDD.

 

[a shovel]

on cds.

 

[nelamvr6]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dmk005 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Slick SAN solution! I think I need to head the same direction. Where did you acquire yours?

I got mine from newegg pre-configured with 4 500GB drives.

 

[nelamvr6]

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkshiu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Same here. Bought empty drive with 1G memory from amazon. (Same price from Infrant direct. no discount). Bought drives from online stores when they are on sale.Currently cheapest is about $119 for 500 Seagate 500G SATA2.

I can't remember how much ram mine has, but I know it's not that much. s it possible to add more ram? What are the advantages?

 

[leqin]

Two 1 terror

byte SAN's - oh and you maybe need to rethink your idea on hardrive reliability because Google, who maybe own more hardrives than anyonelse in the universe recently did a study on them and what they realised is that what hardrive makers have claimed doesn't add up and they are more prone to failure than you would think - best place to go is maybe http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-081.htm which links to the study by Google and another by one that reached pretty much the same conclusion at Carnegie Mellon.

 

[dmk005]

Quote:

Originally Posted by leqin /img/forum/go_quote.gif Two 1 terror byte SAN's - oh and you maybe need to rethink your idea on hardrive reliability because Google, who maybe own more hardrives than anyonelse in the universe recently did a study on them and what they realised is that what hardrive makers have claimed doesn't add up and they are more prone to failure than you would think - best place to go is maybe http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-081.htm which links to the study by Google and another by one that reached pretty much the same conclusion at Carnegie Mellon.

Okay, so all bets are off when predicting HDD reliability. Do you agree our answer is still the same...we need a complex RAID-based multi-disk approach if we want true fault tolerance? Or do we switch to tape?