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Originally Posted by gusmahler
That's what backups are for. Hard drives are cheap enough that having an extra couple of external hard drives is not a big deal. And it's certainly easier than having to re-rip 100 GB of music. (I would not call re-ripping an entire collection "easy". It's incredibly time consuming.)
Maybe I'm just cheap, but spending an extra couple hundred bucks on that versus just keeping my CD's seems kinda wasteful. I already have three external HD's though so I could use them that way if I wanted to.
Actually, wait ... one pooped out on me so all that stuff is lost unless I want to pay a service to dig it out for me. Pricey, or at least it used to be.
In an entirely separate incident, I've had a power surge literally melt a very heavy duty battery back-up/surge protector and make it catch on fire before, so I just feel nervous about having everything in any type of volatile storage. I like the security of having something you can set a magnet on top of and that power surges can't harm.
I also have given away a ton of my old music and my collection now is very small, so starting over would still be a bit of a bear to me, but not the nightmare that it would be if I had 100 gigs. I think if I had a 16 gig flash player with an 8 gig add-in flash card, I'd probably be happy to never get one any bigger.
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I couldn't even re-rip if I wanted to because I've gotten rid of most of my CDs. The only reason I have any CDs at all is because of my car. And once I change the head unit to one that accepts iPod/external AUX inputs, I'm going to get rid of those CDs also.
My car is too old to have an mp3 player or aux-in of any kind. Or a GPS. I'm going to really love the upgrade when I eventually make it.