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Which hard drive for digital music server?

I have set-up my digital music server with great success. My system consists of a G4 laptop, 500GB LaCie firewire hardrive, and a Waveterminal U24 going into my preamp. I have almost 200 GB worth of music ripped onto the LaCie in Apple lossless, and am thinking that I will use this drive as my back-up. I want to buy another drive to use as my active drive and am looking for recomendations. Clearly, reliability is important and I think I would like something with atleast 200 GB. What would you suggest?
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I've been very partial to Seagate drives as well, and I'd suggest using the Baracuda 7200rpm SATA drives. Western Digital also makes good drives. I use Seagates in most of the computers I build for friends and they've always commented on how quick the drive access is and how quiet the computer is. Maxtor (owned by WD I believe) is the brand that I've had the worst luck with.

But I agree with the above comment that if you have a good backup drive then your choice of hard drives is less important (go for low cost), provided that you back it up religiously.

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