Why is he voted up? RAID is NOT for data backup, or protecting your data.
Knowing someone who's starting a security consulting firm, RAID is the dumbest way to back something up. How do you back something up? Off-site NAT.
And in regards to this...media...thing, doesn't Opus make CD player's and DAC's? I'm pretty sure this is meant to be an all-in-one music server, CD player, and DAC.
A good media center PC and DAC are about the same price. I priced out a health HTPC, for $2k, and the Benchmark DAC1 (probably the best DAC out right now) is about $800 used, or like $1000 new, and $1200 if it has USB input.
And you people don't rip your CD's? I archive all my CD's. Setting up EAC and spending about 20 minutes per CD so that I am not screwed if my CD's get ruined somehow, is well worth the time. And if I still want to use a CD player, I can use a good burning program and the cue sheet that EAC generated, and there, I have a bit-perfect copy of the original CD.
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Jesse S @ Sep 26th 2007 3:14PM
Why is he voted up? RAID is NOT for data backup, or protecting your data.
Knowing someone who's starting a security consulting firm, RAID is the dumbest way to back something up. How do you back something up? Off-site NAT.
And in regards to this...media...thing, doesn't Opus make CD player's and DAC's? I'm pretty sure this is meant to be an all-in-one music server, CD player, and DAC.
A good media center PC and DAC are about the same price. I priced out a health HTPC, for $2k, and the Benchmark DAC1 (probably the best DAC out right now) is about $800 used, or like $1000 new, and $1200 if it has USB input.
And you people don't rip your CD's? I archive all my CD's. Setting up EAC and spending about 20 minutes per CD so that I am not screwed if my CD's get ruined somehow, is well worth the time. And if I still want to use a CD player, I can use a good burning program and the cue sheet that EAC generated, and there, I have a bit-perfect copy of the original CD.