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Not trying to start an argument and perhaps you have had some bad experience with some hard drives. But just what do you consider a short life span ?
We have had 6 machines online 24/7 for over 9 years now and in that time only had one hard drive failure, and that was on a fiber optic unit. I believe that any one that as any amount of critical data on a drive and has taken no precaution for a failure rather deserves what happens.
That is pretty amazing. I wonder if it one of those devices that if left on and undisturbed the life span goes way up? Been around since the begining of computers both home and at work and I believe most people would say that hard disk crashes are not exactly unheard of.
The time required to put that much music on any device would prevent me from buying it if there was no fool proof way of backing it up including with that outrageous price tag.
