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Which hard drive for digital music server?

I have set-up my digital music server with great success. My system consists of a G4 laptop, 500GB LaCie firewire hardrive, and a Waveterminal U24 going into my preamp. I have almost 200 GB worth of music ripped onto the LaCie in Apple lossless, and am thinking that I will use this drive as my back-up. I want to buy another drive to use as my active drive and am looking for recomendations. Clearly, reliability is important and I think I would like something with atleast 200 GB. What would you suggest?
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onhwy61
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I've had very good experiences with LaCie drives. I've also used Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate with some success. All hard drives will eventually fail, so as long as you back them up I don't think it makes that much difference what you use as long as it's reasonably quiet.

It's critical that you also back up your iTunes library files.
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onhwy61
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Raid systems are very good at providing redundant type protection, but your data is still stored in one physical space. It won't protect against fire, electrical damage or other acts of god. If you're really serious about protection you'll store your backup(s) in different physical locations. Personally, I think you're better off having data saved in two distinct locations than have a single RAID setup.
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