Apple Lossless vs iTunes Plus

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You said:
“With drives costing $100 per terabyte right now everyone should have a second drive that mirrors the regular storage drive.”

Would you mind telling me where I can get a 1TB drive for $100?... internal or external?

I’ve yet to see that much acreage for that little $$$. Definitely not with eSATA drives… I'd sure be interested in it. Thanks much.

For those of you who don't live in a major metro or prefer to shop by mail:

newegg dot come

outpost dot com

Ckorody - it is only in the ads that Agon does not allow hyperlinks. You don't need to fly stealth in the forums:

Newegg
Outpost

Terabyte drives have a reputation of being slow and unreliable and are usually two or more 500gb platters/drives housed in a single box. I work in photography and graphic arts and no one uses those drives as reliable backup because of that reputation. Is your library really that large, or are you backing up other stuff as well? I'd suggest a mirrored RAID solution like this one (about $369 street) where you can swop out the SATA drives very easily and inexpensively. There are other options in that same price bracket as well. My friend has been using this one for about 6 months and is so far very happy with it. I'm still doing a mirrored back up manually with two separate 500gb drives.

Correction; a 1TB Rocraid is currently just under $300 at Amazon They also have a 1.5TB and 2TB version for not much more $.

Blindjim - I got this Lacie drive for $99 when they had a special. The regular price is $119 but this vendor and almost all the other sites are constantly offering daily or weekly specials.

The sites I've found best to deal with are:
http://newegg.com
http://www.buy.com/
but you should also check out
http://frys.com/
http://www.tigerdirect.com/

A good way to find deals is to check these sites when you're in the market for something:
http://www.techbargains.com/
http://dealmac.com/
http://dealnews.com/
Techbargains has pretty good search functionality. Many sites like newegg and buy.com have newsletters that list whatever they're selling cheaply

I wasn't aware of any reliability issues with 1 terabyte drives but either smaller capacity drives or a RAID array are certainly great solutions, as Jax2 recommends.