I'm using 2 80gb SSD drives as system drive, then a 120Gb drive as project recording drive, then a 20TB 10 bay Synology NAS as centralized network storage via GBit
The system drive gets snapshotted everry week as backup image on the NAS
The recording drive gets mirrored after every studio,session.

Completed project are stored on a seperate shared folder on the NAS.
Since i got 32GB (64bit OS and DAW) memory, in my DAW nowadays I seldom use the D drive but stream and render directly from/to the NAS works flawless

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thank for replies!

I had not thought of that, it's a fact that hard disk could fail in fact I have faced that in the past

So I will go for a 1TB but cannot decide about
ST Barracuda ST31000524AS
WD black wd1002faex
WD Red wd10efrx

Any recommendations? or any other that is not listed? (NO SSD)

about backups, how did you afford that? is there any software to manage backups? are any of you using raid?

thanks!

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Originally posted by beamrider WD black wd1002faex

When I was researching a new system drive a year or so ago, the WD Black series got mentioned numerous times on various forums as being one of the most reliable drives available. So, that's what I'm using now, but I haven't really had it long enough to confirm that it's reliable over the long haul. I also have five other HDs in my computer, all Seagate and WD drives. I've only ever had one drive fail on me (a Seagate 1TB)....knock on wood.

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Originally posted by Raphie I'm using 2 80gb SSD drives as system drive, then a 120Gb drive as project recording drive, then a 20TB 10 bay Synology NAS as centralized network storage via GBit The system drive gets snapshotted everry week as backup image on the NAS The recording drive gets mirrored after every studio,session. Completed project are stored on a seperate shared folder on the NAS. Since i got 32GB (64bit OS and DAW) memory, in my DAW nowadays I seldom use the D drive but stream and render directly from/to the NAS works flawless

That is hardcore. I can't help thinking that is overkill for a one man band project mastering studio. I know a lot of pro commercial studios that don't have backup like that.

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Originally posted by beamrider thank for replies! I had not thought of that, it's a fact that hard disk could fail in fact I have faced that in the past So I will go for a 1TB but cannot decide about ST Barracuda ST31000524AS WD black wd1002faex WD Red wd10efrx Any recommendations? or any other that is not listed? (NO SSD) about backups, how did you afford that? is there any software to manage backups? are any of you using raid? thanks!

You really should go for an SSD. The main brands are no as reliable if not more than standard HD's.

1TB system drive is also completely pointless - you want your system drive to be dedicated as it gets the most use and is the most crucial in terms of data transfer and usage. Having things on there such as other data is a bad move as if the system drive gets corrupted (most likely due to usage etc) then you lose that data.

Get a smallish SSD (like 250gb) and get large storage HD's.

Seriously once you use an SSD, every other computer you ever try will feel like you're wading through treacle.

I really can;t understand why anyone would install anything other than an SSD as their system drive now.

i have 2 8 bay SSD enclosure with thunderbolt. 4 Tb each. And then i finally put my hard rives in a proper rig. 8 bays x 3. About 50 TB of redundant storage.

And then each computer

2 mac pros 2 x 512 SSD each
macbok pro 2 x 512
pc , 2 x 512
imac , 2 x 256.

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had a drive fail on me. I guess i assume any hard rive will fail now at anyh time .

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Timely article posted on PT Expert today about the most and least reliable HD brands:

http://lifehacker.com/the-most-and-...ands-1505797966

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