External Hard Drive for FLAC

[PuterPro]

Hi SHFT!
 
I think he was referring to the NAS electronics failing, not the drives. Been there, done that on both (got the tee shirt, LOL).
 
Most times replacing the box works as you say. New box, switch drives, done. Sometimes it destroys the formatting of the drives.
 
Drive failure, as you say, is pretty easy to deal with, box failure ~can~ be fatal, depends if the box, as it's failing, screams (to the hard drives) "AND YOU'RE COMING WITH ME OVER THIS CLIFF!!"  
 
Buh-By now, you're dead. LOL Even replacing the box won't save ya. Only choice at that point is a data recovery house.
 
Step 1. Get a Wheelbarrow.
Step 2. Fill it with money.
Step 3. Send it and drives to repair house.
Step 4 Hope like hell they can reconstruct the index, otherwise they will return your data like this:
File000001.flac
File000002.flac
File000003.flac  ... etc. 

Step 5. Scream, cry and explain to your significant other WHY you spent all that money to get back your data.
 
Hope you like sleeping on the couch. 
 
Backups rule.
 
PuterPro

 

[Tenzo]

Everyone made some great points.
 
I always say buy two of what you can afford. So if your budget is $100, you should buy two $50 hard drives. 1 as your main data device that you'll be using for your music, and 2nd to backup that first hard drive in case that one crashes. Can you imagine trying to rebuild that library if your hard drive crashes?

 

[PuterPro]

  Everyone made some great points.
 
I always say buy two of what you can afford. So if your budget is $100, you should buy two $50 hard drives. 1 as your main data device that you'll be using for your music, and 2nd to backup that first hard drive in case that one crashes. Can you imagine trying to rebuild that library if your hard drive crashes?

+1
Exactly!!

 

[mwhals]

I know this is old, but my music is stored as follows:

1. Internal PC hard drive
2. ESATA backup RAID 1 mirror (backs up entire PC nightly)
3. WD passport USB drive offline (backs up all other files too).
4. WD passport USB offline that I consider the master FLAC drive
5. All my music is also on cards in my QP1R)

That is like 6 copies if you consider the RAID 1 as two copies.

Most important, note that I have three offline copies so a single failure at does not take out all of them.