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SoMuchSilence

So, a bit of techie problem here. I feel like my external hard drive (a 160 GB Lacie), on which I keep my music, is on the verge of crashing. It was making some whiny noises and I couldn't import or play songs from iTunes; I started getting some freakish message about not being able to read or write from the CD. I restarted the computer (an eMac ... sigh) and that seemed to be a temporary fix, like when the school nurse says, "Put some ice on it."

Anyway, I'm just wondering what everyone's solution is to storing music. There's now way I can keep it on my internal drive because this eMac hard drive is not very big at all. So, I guess I have to get an external for my external??

Thanks.

sean gramophone

Solution: backups.

Seriously, backups are more than an issue of 'making sure you don't lose your pirated music' these days. For so many of us, all of our memories are being saved as digital photos, one hard-drive crash away from obliteration. Back up onto more than one hard-drive, back up onto CD-R and DVD-R, and repeat regularly, making sure you always have 2 or 3 versions of the things you hold dear. It is expensive but if you are young enough to live with/near your parents, get a shared system for your whole family. Or for your circle of friends. Or anything. It's more expensive to find all of your photographs disappear.

squashed

back up my friend. buy a couple of Cheap hardrive and have several copies of that puppy. (or build your own homemade RAID5 array)

Remember CD-R, degrades over time (say 10 years.) or if you expose it to extreme light and heat) Nothing is forever, do some cheap method that can be sustained over time. (external RAID system)

or really, Hardrive cost less than $100 at that size, Buy USB-ATA cable and back up manually.

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