Best way to store a large media library?

Excellent.
Now we have covered that backup is good, disks can break and some people have usb disks both for media and backup. Good know.
It is not my thread but I really like reading all the interesting information about multi TB storage, redundancy and backup solutions(or lack off). Perhaps we should skip the news about my new usb disk and return to the good stuff?

BTW, I used to backup all my stuff on a 5,25 floppy but it doesn't fit in the asrock

Bongu Wrote:As I've been reading more about NAS, RAID, Backups and Drive Failures it really is intimidating seeing how certain people are that drives will fail. Do drives fail because they get old or because they are used so much? I realize that anything is possible so I'm asking about generalities here.

For myself, I'm not certain that any of the drives will fail any time soon, but I know there's a possibility that they might fail. And for spending the money on an extra couple of drives to have it mirrored helps to minimize the chance I lose it all. It'd be an enormous pain to restore my media library and it makes the money spent now worth it!

what is the best to buy ? an etrayz or sheevaplug?