Kublakhan: In regards to your plan to layout your storage as a 2 disk stripe, I wouldn't recommend it. Striped disks offer no data protection with the benefit being increased I/O. I doubt if the disk I/O requirements for audio would push the limits of even a regular PC hard drive sending a single stream. If one of those disks goes out on you, you lose all of the data, the same as if you only had one disk. Look at mirroring the drives, which will give you exactly half the usable storage as the total of both. The other option is a RAID 5 device, which requires a minimum of 3 or 4 drives. A safe estimate of usable storage would be all the disks added up, minus one. RAID 5 will give you very good I/O especially disk read performance. Both of these solutions will protect you against any single disk going bad. More importantly you can rest easier at night knowing something catastophic would have to happen for you to lose all of the songs on your drives. I don'd deal with the MS Windows world too much, so I'm not sure if XP or something like that can create these type of virtual devices for you without having to buy additional software or not, but the same would apply to your striped volume ( disk ).
Personally, I'm in the process of upgrading my wireless network to support Apple's Airport express. I borrowed a buddy's for a few weeks and really liked the results and the lack of wires. I'm convinced wireless is the future for home networking, audio is good to go right now, video will be down the road as the wireless speeds and technologies continue to improve.
Personally, I'm in the process of upgrading my wireless network to support Apple's Airport express. I borrowed a buddy's for a few weeks and really liked the results and the lack of wires. I'm convinced wireless is the future for home networking, audio is good to go right now, video will be down the road as the wireless speeds and technologies continue to improve.