> On 10 March 2011 10:22, Jefrrey Moncrieff <jeffrey [ dot ] moncrieff [ at ] yahoo [ dot ] ca> wrote: >> Hi Rob, >> The worry I would have with 2 TB drives is read/write speeds. I used to like >> the bigger drives but, with more research that I am doing I would suggest >> 4 500gb then 1 2TB. 1) How fast does it need to be to stream music (or even video). 2) He's planning on accessing it through USB So, sure, if you were building a general purpose file server where much random access is important, I can see that argument, but for this specific case (music, big, cheap, portable), a single big drive (I'ld get a second and rsync it occasionally) is easily more convenient. -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, aidan [ at ] highrise [ dot ] ca command like a king, http://www.highrise.ca/ work like a slave.