Article: Reevaluating My Music Storage

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I've been using direct connect storage since the beginning.  I have two 8T drives connected to my iMac, one has DSD files and the other PCM.  We can't let them touch because matter-anti-matter explosion, duh.  Anyhoo, these drives are ~$149 at Costco and I just buy another when my drives are full.  I have older smaller drives full of most of the backups.  At some point, I will probably buy two more and just CCC each and put them in the storage closet.  As I see it, these drives get very little use and go to sleep when not invoked by Roon, so I am not worried about wear.  I probably should put them on a battery backup supply.  Costco also sells those pretty cheap.  Plugged into a power strip with a varistor surge protector a backup supply is unlikely to fry anything unless directly hit by lightening.  Good luck with the use-case with anything tho...