On 11-04-15 09:07 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Stephen Gregory wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:43:42AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> >>> slowly getting unpacked in my market area condo so it's time to >>> figure out where the important stuff is in the area. as in, >>> where's a good place to buy a honking big external drive to which >>> i can start ripping all of my CDs? >> >> Pccyber and Canada Computers. One or both should have a shop within >> walking distance. I also like RB Computing, but they are out in >> Bells Corners in the west end. > > ok. and in terms of a decent, 2TB external drive for all my tunes, > recommendations? don't need anything stupidly expensive, just > reliable. thanks. the new WD green series are getting a bad rep for both performance and reliability, I personally would stay away from them. I would also be wary of putting such a large amount of data on a single external drive. Fortunately, NAS arrays such as the dns-323 are quite reasonably priced these days - NCIX has it on sale for $120. It runs linux internally (bonus!) and can do a raid-1 between 2 SATA drives. cheers! --Raj. > > rday >