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rowan · 09-19-2009, 09:46 PM

If you do buy a 2TB external make sure it's a single 2TB drive, and not 2 x 1TB in RAID0/JBOD format. If either of the drives dies in that setup, you lose all your data.

+1 for a NAS. If you have the $ have a look at Drobo, they use a virtual drive system which allows you to grow your storage by replacing drives as cheaper/larger ones become available. No need to reformat or do anything special, just pull the old drive and replace it with a new one.

If you're into DIY then look up FreeNAS

09-19-2009, 09:46 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	If you do buy a 2TB external make sure it's a single 2TB drive, and not 2 x 1TB in RAID0/JBOD format. If either of the drives dies in that setup, you lose all your data. +1 for a NAS. If you have the $ have a look at Drobo, they use a virtual drive system which allows you to grow your storage by replacing drives as cheaper/larger ones become available. No need to reformat or do anything special, just pull the old drive and replace it with a new one. If you're into DIY then look up FreeNAS