Want to stuff more music in your computer?

[Eyal]

Want to stuff more music in your computer?
Prices are dropping, so why not try one of these:

2 TB (2000 GB) External Hard Drive from LaCie:
http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Extreme-Ext ... B000AZFYQ0


1 TB (1000 GB) External Hard Drive from Western Digital:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=270


That's should be enough space for a few months...

[Blake]

Or wait a couple more months while they drop more

[Hooah]

My Maxtor Touch III is at it's 500GB capacity. But I will wait another three-four months and wait for the Christmas products/sales start or hit the market and pick another up.

[Teknojnky]

I have a seagate 750 gig external, works great.

I would never use a 'raid 0' based external drive tho... too much risk of failure... if one drive failed, your screwed.. and since external drives get moved around alot, not to mention its heavier to move..

I'm waiting for the hitachi 1tb drives (single) to get to retail.

[Scooter]

The whole purpose of a Raid based system is that there is redundency. I have three drives totalling over 1.5tb--actual storage is about 900g. One drive can go out, and you can plug in a new drive, re-stripe the three drives and you are up and running.

That being said, I have another tb backup and a third tb "archive" which is a back up no older than 3 months.

[Teknojnky]

right, but there are no raid 5 'external' drives ..

the drives linked above are only two drive with raid 0 stripe which offers double the capacity with NO safety, or you could mirror the 2 drives but that does not increase your capacity.

I have a 6x 300 gig raid 5 in my server, and well its not the most stable thing I used either.

[Scooter]

Yeah, my Raid V does crash and have to re-stripe. It crashes about twice a year. Thats why I have backups.

My misunderstanding. Yeah Raid 0 just makes 3 drives look like one.

Our company does have an external Raid V drive, from Lacie. Its a big guy and expensive.

We just got a new server with 12 slots for 250 gig drives, a total of 3tb. Arrayed with Raid V, its pretty sweet.

[Lowlander]

If you want something over the network (NAS) you should check out the SmallNetBuilder website. It is a nice resource to look for a suitable solution.

And if you are somewhat technical BYOD (Bring Your Own Disc) solutions are cheaper and multiple drive units are available for RAID solutions.

[Teknojnky]

I just picked up a 1TB hitachi external drive at a local best buy store.

409 bux, usb2, no firewire, 931 GB formatted NTFS (as displayed by windows).

Its quite small, smaller than any other external drive I've seen/used, and very quiet.

Does not seem to be listed on best buy's website or anywhere else for that matter.

I was kind of surprised to see an external drive on the shelf, they did not have any internals yet.

[Teknojnky]

As a follow up to my previous post, I've spent the last 4 days trying 2 different drives (hitachi brand easy drive 1tb) only to have both of them repeatedly failing with 'delayed write failures' and making strange noises.

I am extremely disappointed and aggravated at spending 400+ bux and wasting almost a week trying get these drives to work.

Fortunately for me, I did not lose any data since I only COPIED it to the new drives, however if someone else happened to MOVE data to one of these drives and it failed, they may have a hard time getting that data back.

in summary, the hitachi brand 'easy drive' external usb 1 tb drive, is the worst drive I've had the un-pleasure of using.

which is a damn shame, because it would be awesome to have all that space in small, light, and quiet drive.

[Eyal]

... and wasting almost a week trying get these drives to work.

There's nothing surprising they name it "Easy Drive".

[Scooter]

The Lacie 1tb is under $300. I've got two and they work like champs.