At 11:41 AM 1/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>We've been using removable hard-drives. Which, I've got to tell you, is a 
>royal pain in the ass. Especially if the sessions are more than 10 songs (a 
>drive only holds about that many multi-track files).

How big are these drives? And $1500 for one hard drive?  For useless
comparison... I paid in November $120 for a 160 gig, 7200 RPM Western Digital
drive which will cost me 30 bucks after rebate. I guess these are high speed
SCSI or SATA drives that usually go into network servers.

>We nearly lost the Kings last studio album because the studio where the 
>album was being done needed their computer freed up for a follow-up session. 
>We had blown every last dime on the recording process and hadn't budgeted 
>for the additional hard-drives to save the material as back-up. The studio 
>was going to erase the stuff.....or burn everything onto 465 separate 
>CDR's....fortunately we were able to find someone with a hard drive we 
>temporarily borrowed to save the sessions. Phew.

I'd hate to be the guy burning those 465 CD-R's...ugh Might want to invest
in a
DVD burner - one DVD+R can hold a little over 7 700mb CD-R's, almost 15 for
the
new double layer discs.