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Aevans0001

By Aevans0001
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Where/How do you store your media  

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  1. 1. Where/How do you store your media,roms,etc

    • On the system drive in the Launchbox subdirectory (c:\launchbox\games)
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    • Somewhere else on the system drive (C:\)
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    • Somewhere on the system drive but I perform backups regularly
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    • On a different internal drive (D:\)
      2
    • On a different drive but perform regular backups
      1
    • On a network drive (NAS)
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    • On a raid array and no other backup
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    • On a network drive over the internet
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    • On an external hard drive
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Ok So I store my arcade files on a network drive (4 disk NAS).  I just had a hard drive failure, which ended up with more complications.  At this time I am unsure weather I will be able to retrieve my data or not. Which brings up my question.  How/Where does everyone keep their arcade files.  Do you backup?  Are you living on the edge of a hard drive failure?

 

Here is my setup

Launchbox installed to d:\

Symbolic links to my nas (Z:\) for games, videos, manuals, data, backups, music, sounds, and themes.  You can not have your images on your nas system or it will work way too slow.

My Emulators are all installed on my d drive as well with all configuratiion info linked to my  z:\ drive

Rocketlauncher is also installed with symbolic links.

 

What this does for me is gives me redundancy (which should work except maybe in this case of 2 hd going bad, we will see), but it also makes it to where I can load launchbox on any computer in my house and have the same experience.  I have also tested installing it on my laptop and playing games away from home.  Which worked remarkably well (of course I used very small games to test, think NES or older arcade).

 

Let me know please as I maybe looking for a new way.

 

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