That's all of course on top of the video home theater tasks. This has certainly allowed me to explore stuff like starting on the path down digital room correction ( here and here), easily access my multichannel library through JRiver and HDMI to the receiver, and use my TEAC UD501 DAC for high-resolution and native DSD playback through USB. Over the past few years, I've done more with my computer in the listening room (as per my HTPC build articles - here and here). But what about "keeping it simple" on the hardware side? Now the "good" thing about this otherwise unfortunate episode is that as I was tinkering with the server computer, I got to thinking more about the whole "keeping it simple" idea (I wrote about this idea late last year - of course that article was more about the whole concept of simplifying hi-res audio albums). I believe these "Red" drives meant for NAS usage have reasonably good reputations for reliability. I've since replaced the drive with a new 6TB Western Digital Red 6TB WD60EFRX. It turned out than a 2010 Western Digital 2TB WD20EARS "Caviar Green" was the cause of some file access slowdowns I was experiencing. However, replacing hard drives remains an unfortunate and tiring affair of the modern day do-it-yourself tech user and computer audiophile. Of course important data was backed up so I didn't lose anything (I keep copies of important files in both my workstation computer in the upstairs office as well as the basement server). Looking back, early-January was a busy time for me! A number of work responsibilities and then I also had to deal with a computer issue - perhaps THE most annoying computer issue - hard drive failure on my server machine.
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