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In the Thread: The best practices for DAW Data Storage.
Post Subject: Tough callPosted by Antonio J. on: 9/24/2007
I don't know what I'd do if I were in your position. In mine I'll just add another external USB2.0 drive when the current one is full. I know, no RAID nor auto-backup features, but inexpensive, silent and reliable.
If I wanted to have back-up and large storage space for less than 2000 I'd probably build a new computer in a large enclosure with 8 or more 3.5" bays and would get a good motherboard RAID capable with 6 or 8 SATA channels, fitting as many hardisks as wanted. This can be done using SCSI, hardware is more expensive, discs available are smaller in size, but you can add a lot of hardisks if they fit into the enclosure. The main problem of that is size and noise.
A good advantage of external hardisks is that you can remove them of the system once full, and just store them in a bookshelf, connecting them to the computer when needed. It's a fine plug&play thing.
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