While hard drives do fail the comment in the article is a little extremist.
We're in the infancy stage of hard drive storage of media, and the devices that utilize them.
Eventually the media will reside on a central server somewhere in the household and be fed out to devices via ethernet, firewire or highspeed wireless (802.11a or g?). The server will use a raid system and swappable drives so that a failure can be corrected by the homeowner.
Right now I have four PVRS containing at least six hard drives (my two ReplayTV units have been upgrade to two 80 gig drives each; I haven't cracked open my DirecTivos yet, bu they're probably one drive each), plus I've got two more 80 gig drives for my Tivos. Counting the original drives out of the ReplayTVs, I've got nearly 600 gigs of hard drive designated for video storage. Plus the various CD that have been ripped to my PCs.
I would rather have all that storage in one server that could be accessed by various devices throughout the house.
On a side note, I would also like my PVRs to talk to each other for conflict resolution, etc. I would gladly settle on a single make of equipment if someone would produce units that could talk to each other and utilize server-based storage.
We're in the infancy stage of hard drive storage of media, and the devices that utilize them.
Eventually the media will reside on a central server somewhere in the household and be fed out to devices via ethernet, firewire or highspeed wireless (802.11a or g?). The server will use a raid system and swappable drives so that a failure can be corrected by the homeowner.
Right now I have four PVRS containing at least six hard drives (my two ReplayTV units have been upgrade to two 80 gig drives each; I haven't cracked open my DirecTivos yet, bu they're probably one drive each), plus I've got two more 80 gig drives for my Tivos. Counting the original drives out of the ReplayTVs, I've got nearly 600 gigs of hard drive designated for video storage. Plus the various CD that have been ripped to my PCs.
I would rather have all that storage in one server that could be accessed by various devices throughout the house.
On a side note, I would also like my PVRs to talk to each other for conflict resolution, etc. I would gladly settle on a single make of equipment if someone would produce units that could talk to each other and utilize server-based storage.