Personally, even with a backup, I am paranoid enough to want to keep a copy of the original media for dire emergencies ... I've invested too many years building up my CD collection to take the risk of losing it all.
And, having just had my 6-month old 400GB backup disk die on me (good thing it had a 5-year warranty!), I am proof of the fact that media does fail. I spent several very nervous days waiting for the replacement to arrive, thinking about all the labor that went into ripping my CDs being for naught if my primary drive decided to die before the replacement arrived. Not to mention, who knows what format you might want your music in 20 years from now ... and whether there will be a transcoder from FLAC to that format ... low odds of this being a problem, I know, but the odds are not zero ... Personally, I'd pay the extra insurance, just for the peace of mind. -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29003 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
