On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:53:50 +0100, Serge Auckland wrote:

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I would budget for a RAID 5 disc array at some stage. If you don't then
one day, your single 500G drive *will* fail, and you'll lose your entire
music library. I know that if you have the CDs, you can reinstall
everything, but ripping 500-1000 CDs isn't a trivial task, and in my
view, a RAID 5 array is good value if it avoids that.

S.

Thanks for the suggestion Serge. On my main PC I have a USB drive that
contains copies of important stuff and I'll probably do the same with the
music. (For the first 120GB...then the USB disk will be full.) Although
it means managing the backups manually it also provides easy movement
between machines and I can leave it switched off and unplugged. The idea
is that it would survive the proverbial lightning strike but that's
probably an illusion as I tend to leave it sitting on top of the system
case. The greatest risk is probably theft but so far I haven't worried
about that enough to do anything about it.
Now you have started me down this route, I really wonder what would get
nicked first.......

Richard


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