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In Reply to: Re: Macintosh Based Music Server posted by jcmjrt on February 3, 2007 at 11:03:18:
Hi - Granite makes a nice firewire enclosure. The hot swap feature is actually a cost savings since it enables you to avoid buying multiple enclosures.Anyhow, two things are essential to a long lived hard drive.
1) a solid power supply - a lot of the consumer cases look good but don't pack much punch, especially not for a 300Gb+ drive
2) cooling - no matter how you slice it, heat is the enemy of hard drives. again the better case manufacturers use better fans - as a DIY guy this is something you could probably play with
Finally, whiole it has matured, the selection of chip for the implementation of the FW or USB connection can effect performance.
The drives themselves - and I am speaking specifically of what are called enterprise level drives (they have a longer warranty) from WD, Seagate, Maxtor and Hitachi don't make much noise - certainly not enough to be an issue. Newegg.com is a very good source.
In fact, because I also work in this room, I have 1.5Tb of drives running all the time and while they definitely add to the room ambience, I don't hear them at normal listening levels. YMMV
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