On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 05:53:53 -0400, Tom Gardner
wrote:

On 3/7/2015 6:46 PM, Karl Townsend wrote:

External hard drives!

You bring up a good point for the future. This box has 6 USB. They are
full - mouse, keyboard, camera, memory stick, two hard drives.

Any big deal to add more USBs?

Also can you beat the 2Tb limit on USB hard drives. I've had no luck
here.

FWIW, this is the box you helped pick out with a MB replacement. I'll
give you the old MB if you can use it.

Karl




You have all the eggs in one basket. I too have a lot of video but it's
distributed over a number of computers on the network. None of the
computers are "first flight" and they have a couple of external USB
drives hanging off of them. The one computer on the TV then plays the
video from wherever it is, I have all the drives listed on the desktop,
all running XP. I think active UPS's give good electrical protection
but I just have MOV's. I prefer 1TB drives for price and reliability.
Current state of the art is 4tb for best price point and
reliability. There have been some totall atrocious 2 and 3 tb drives
on the market. The 3 terrabyte Seagate garracuda was a terrible drive
- 1 in 4 failure rate under warranty. The 4tb Barracuda appears to be
rock solid.
The HGST 4 terrabyte appears to be among the best on the market at the
present time. (Formerly Hitachi)