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It seems you have chosen langlauf skis for downhill :-)

USB drives are inteded as portable storage not permanent 24/7 workhorse. The failure rate of USB drives is around 50% because of the excessive heat.

Especially failure prone are solutions where ordinary 3.5in drives are used in DIY enclosures. It works for transporting documents but does not work as music storage.

Anyone using external USB drives without off site backup is looking for trouble.

Solution? Get enterprise-class internal Seagate drives (one with 5 years warranty) put them into workstation and you'll be fine.

If your PC can not handle addition drives, buy any P3 or P4 PC and use it as a file server, place it in the basement or somewhere elese and hook up to home network.

I guess there is no looking back once you got spoiled with thousands of CDs three mouseclicks away.



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