I go with ext3 for this personally. NTFS doesn't store *nix style filesystem permissions, and causes various other issues with you Linux systems. With ext3, you can store all your files with all of your permissions intact, the filesystem is mature and trustworthy, and you can still access all of the files from any operating system by simply connecting the drives to a dedicated fileserver machine (an older computer or small device works perfectly for this). Simply share your files via NFS, Samba and ftp (if you need ftp access for something like xmbc). Having a dedicated machine for this means you can also script your replication to the secondary drive, so that you only have to attach the drive for the mirroring process to take place.

This is the solution I've been using for about four years now, and it works great for me.

Featuring racing electrons?

btw, first post! ;)

"Second... I don't want my tax dollars being used for a mirror server."

You sound like a Microsoft junkie. I suppose you think opensource is, "evil evil bad!"?

That's easy! Switch them to Linux, where the devs weren't too shortsighted to realize that it would be a good idea to make everything on the desktop scalable. I run at my native resolution, which would make things a bit small for me, but all I have to do is set the monitor DPI to a higher value than actual, and everything appears at a nice, easily readable size.

How about a Mac Mini with a remote control? They have good audio hardware, you can connect it to your network wirelessly, and you can use Mac OS X, Linux or Windows on it for playing audio. They're also small, nearly silent, and women think they're cute.

Debian Minimal is what you're looking for.

Gee, THANKS Captain Obvious! I don't know what we'd do without you!

No pictures? How can they not show us any pictures of this? And why a joystick? Why not something more like a brainwave scanner? That way, when you're talking on the cellphone, and you get distracted by picturing what the person on the other end is saying, you crash into a wall! That would be so cool!

This is why I only ask musicians who are good at what they do for advice on audio equipment. If you want to know what's good, you have to ask a musician who's passionate about music. Musicians know what the music is supposed to sound like because they've spent countless hours learning songs and practicing their craft. By listening to them, I have a setup that's so good it's made me turn and look behind me more than a few times because I swore the noise was made by something in the room.

KRK Rokit Studio monitors with a BBE Sonic Maximizer, in case you're wondering.

My Direct Loans are still around 3%. I wonder why he's paying 8.5%.

When I first read it, I thought he was talking about connecting two offices together securely. Of course, I also hadn't considered that we here in Chicago tend to spend more money than people in other areas, either.

Use a point to point T1 just like all the other small businesses out there. Even small businesses can afford it. They just may not want to pay for it, but they will.

Duh, Qt!