Having followed sadexpunk’s thread about streaming music I have bought the Squeezebox Touch so am looking at buying a readyNas drive to stream directly from using Logitech media server software ( I don’t want to have a PC running). What is the advantage of twin drives in a RAID format-if one drive corrupts, the second follows it so you need a backup as well surely? I am thinking of just getting a 1Tb drive for the moment for this reason. Is there also a complete dummies guide to ripping to FLAC with EAC-I have tried a couple of times but have real trouble getting tags for tracks, cover art & especially lyrics to apply easily.

Protects against hardware failure, not file corruption

Have a read here for the corruption/backup issues

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/psa-server-for-150-quid

So basically all it’s doing is saving you time reloading a backup to a new drive?

Yes. RAID 1 (mirror) allows one drive to fail and you can keep working.
You still need a backup.

If you can afford downtime then a single drive and solid backup routine is fine.

Just backup regularly – and if you are paranoid, verify the backup and back that up!