Hardware installation: storage media

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We use USB2 external hard discs for storage. We like the Lacie hard drivers: they are very reliable and simple. It is advised to keep the operating system on a separate internal hard disk, and use either the USB Lacie drives for recording, or have an additional internal hard disks, or even better -- a RAID. We custom build our computers with internal RAID system that gives effective 4Tb of storage space (with redundancy) so that bad hard disks can be replaced (swapped) on the fly.