mr2channel

OK first post on the forum, so just want to say Hi to everyone and TIA for any and all help provided...in turn as a residential audio video professional, audiophile and music lover, if I can help you out with anything I am "good at" please let me know, I would be happy to help out...so onto the reason I joined the forum...


I have an IBM desktop (model 8307, netvista-tower) that I purchased off Ebay on the cheap as a back up in case my laptop dies and I need a PC (cause you know we can't be left w/o one ) anyway it is straight up stock with the exception of added ram...what I WANT to do is covert it over to a music storage solution and use a Logitech Squeezebox as a music manager and what I had in mind was upgrade the power supply, add fans for cooling and drop in several 1 TB drives and set it up so that if one of my drives starts to fail the music (data) is sent to a 1 TB backup drive.

I am familiar with RAID technology and did consider that route but I do not have multiple users pulling the music at the same time, just me...so unless I am missing something a raid setup for my application would be like swatting a fly with a large sledge hammer...not really needed to do the job.

I am married with a kids so my budget is tight and will most likely do this project in pieces.

that is it in a nutshell, if I omitted info you need to help please let me know.

2CH