Best IDE Hard Drive for old music server and how to clone

Bill13

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Hi Guys:

I have an old music server in my theatre room that I do not use too much. It is a Audio RequestN. It has a 160 gb IDE hard drive in it. The software is proprietary and if my hard
drive crashes I would not buy this unit again because of its age. So I want to clone the old hard drive using a 320 GB iDE. I was thinking that Western Digital is good for music but
I want to know what brand you would buy. Also, if you have an easy cloning technique or good software to recommend, I am all ears.

Bill

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Probably just ghost the drive.

And, if anything, just take the data off and put it somewhere else. Leave it be until it croaks, or perhaps upgrade time... Going to another pata device is not recommended.
 
It serves its purpose in a theatre room intergrated by a Crestron: When the server goes I will not even upgrade it. So the intention is to have a spare IDE. I know Pata is ancient but that's the route I am going with this room as I am doing all my upgrading in another part of house. So the questions stands: Best IDE HD or does it not matter.
 
Since it does not matter I just got a Seagate. I think they are known for being quieter than most and can be used 24/7.
 
Since it does not matter I just got a Seagate. I think they are known for being quieter than most and can be used 24/7.

HDD reliability changes from time to time among different brands. WD used to be #1, but now it's Seagate, so you chose well. WD still is a good make, don't discount it. It just comes and goes in batches. It was not long ago that everyone was using Hitachi external drives and finding them one of the more reliable ones. A couple of years ago Maxtor was tops. See how it ebbs and flows?
Besides it's hard enough to find IDE HDDs these days anyway. It's all SATA and SolidState now.
 
Hey Rob: Not for back up: This music server is part of a 2008 theatre room. Back then I thought I would listen to music through wall speakers. Now I have a different room for my set up. I still use the Server for some back ground music around the house. The software is proprietary "audio ReQuestN serious music server". I just wanted to clone the hard drive in case of failure. I would not put another music server in that room if I was starting again. By the way while I have a little audience what is difference between wav, flac, and mp3 ripping from cds in terms of space?
 
Too late : got the segate: you should not hesitate. Now there is no way to negate. So this is my fate . Arriving on a nearby date. I am sure I will not hate.
 
Hey bud ..the external didn't have to be just backup...it can serve as a regular drive, always connected. You'll do fine with the Seagate.

A WAV rip of an audio CD is a perfect, uncompressed lossless copy of the sound waveform contained on the CD. Ripping a CD to WAV copies all its data, regardless of its aural importance, to a file on your hard drive. WAV rips have a very high quality, and a correspondingly high file size. This is the best format but takes up huge space

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. It takes up huge space and with compression is near lossless but cannot be truly lossless. Just the nature of compression.

You can read about MP3's here but know that there is loss and the more the compression the greater the loss
What Is MP3 File Compression? | eHow
 
Bill, I got your best IDE drive right here! :D

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