> From: "Ray Brizzi" <fmsorigray@earthlink.net>
> Stewart said...Number one: seriously, am I the *only* person here who has
> experienced a massive catastrophic hard drive loss?  Trusting a music
> collection that has undoubtedly cost me many thousands of dollars to the whims
> and vagaries of a small hunk of metal does not strike me as a good idea.

One of the computer staff people that works with me here, whose major job is
backing up computers at work, had transferred all his CDs to MP3s, and put
them on an big external disk, and then got rid of most of his CDs.  Of course,
he didn't bother backing up most of, and it got corrupted. 

You either should simply buy a 2nd disk for backup (they're so cheap these
days), or back up everything on CDR.   I don't have a large disk on my old
computers at home, so I keep everything on CDRs, and then I make a
2nd copy, which I keep at work.  Offsite backup in reverse.

Mark