hey folks, I'm about to purchase some more external Hard drive space. I want a network drive, so that I can access it from my windows computer, my wife will be able to access it with her mac, and an eventual third computer that will be used only for playing music. (maybe a linux box, but maybe a mac mini).
anyway, at this point, I think I'm going to go for a terrabyte. I'll probably need 2 or 3 three to get my whole music collection on there, but I've got to start somewhere, and I think 1 TB will allow me to get a sizeable portion of my Phish collection onto one drive.
I'm about to go for the 1TB version of the "LaCie Ethernet Big Disk"
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10882my
only reservation about this drive, based on what I've read on the internet (about this drive specifically, and external hard drives in general), is that this drive has two 500 GB drives in it. From what I understand, this increases the chances of failure, because if one of the drives go, the whole thing is gone.
So, should I go for it? or would it be better to get two 500 GB drives (in separate enclosures, so that if one goes, the other one doesn't necessarily go with it). any thoughts?