The Death Of The External Hard Drive

i have a dual-bay NAS set up as RAID 1 (translation = a networked external drive with TWO hard drives in it, which are exact copies, and which appear on your computer as one drive. if one drive fails, you already have an exact copy of it. howvwrr, if you get some kind of data corruption, that corruption is also copied...... so really i need to be backing those up to Time Machine or something)

ned, i'll send you an external drive, copy yer music on to it and i'll keep a back up here in the UK. kthx

ned for truly huge needs you can get, say, a three or five-bay NAS and set it up as one of the other flavors of RAID. the whole enchilada will appear as one humongous networked drive. and then of course for safety's sake you get the exact same setup again, and back everything up to that on a daily or weekly basis

Mine keep dying, it's a drag. Seems to be the essential ones that do it too.
Think I've just lost load s of VU & Sun Ra
not what the thread's about but, wah.

xpost -- sounds involved but worth it, of course. Pricing is obviously my key concern. (Keep in mind that I'm planning on a computer upgrade later in the year, so that has priority.)

This is intriguing.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/29/connected-data-transporter-sync/

Am trying to make my internal SSD as slim as possible. Current hurdle: iPhoto library.

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