Remember that modern hard drives are designed to be run all the time. Spinning anything mechanical up and down actually does more damage than leaving it on all the time. Thus a hard drive will be more reliable if left on all the time.
As far as storage, I too use an external hard drive encloser and a big hard disk. As mentioned $100 for 300gb and $25 for a decent USB 2.0 enclosure. Then I use SyncBack (but any decent backup program will do) to run weekly backups of my music to my enclosure. If something truly terrible happens: fire, theft, "act of god" then at least you still have your original CDs which you could re-rip. They are the ultimate backup. ss. -- street_samurai ------------------------------------------------------------------------ street_samurai's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=199 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18029 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
