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In Reply to: Ideal external hard drive for music storage? posted by TN034 on October 31, 2006 at 17:01:11:
Try G-Technology drives. I am using quie a few of them from 250 GB to 500 GB and works very well. You can find individual and RAID protected drives and disk arrays in their product range. Works very well even for professional video editing.If you need extremely quiet and affordable 3 or 4.5TB disk arrays for a price of a mid-high-end cd player look for fibrenetix.
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That looks like a very good drive, and what I meant when I said 'not consumer'. They look great too! I wonder how quiet they are?
I just took a peek at the G-Tech drives. One says its RAID 3, another says its RAID 0, and I didn't see anything obvious about RAID 1, 5, 10, or 0+1 support. Both RAID 0 and 3 imply faster access times, but no redundancy. If you invest the time to rip your CD collection, I'd recommend something with redundancy like RAID 5. I've had a large number of "consumer" external drives go bad on me--I'm now using 1TB buffalo terastations configured in RAID 5 for music/media.
you said "I've had a large number of "consumer" external drives go bad on me"I haven't had any external drives - so I haven't had a large number go bad on me.
However, I've had enough internal drives go bad, that there's no way I would do it without redundant backups.
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