I own about 1500 CD and would love to get them ALL in FLAC and access from my Squeezebox. Ditto for my DVDs. The more capacity the better.

I picked up a 500-gig Western Digital MyDrive (or something like that) for around $100. It doesn't hold my entire DVD collection, but it can hold 100 movies.

Yeah. There's no such thing as too much disk space.

I could live with that, although the idea of taking 1 disk away that had the movies on it, 1 that had the music etc. sounds really funky. And the catalogue that I'm reading right now has a WD 1TB MyBook (which is I suspect what you were refering to) for £170which sounds interesting, althou will have to wait for budget conditions to ease a bit.

The MyBooks are very large and require a separate power supply. What I have is the MyPassport Essential, which is about the size of a deck of playing cards and is USB-powered:


http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_lrg.../209225090.jpg

Buy.com has this one for $117 US.

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digi...209225090.html

B&H, which I know ships to Europe and the UK, has it for $119.99 US.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...Essential.html

By the way, they come in a variety of colors which, for some reason, are priced differently. You might find a "less desirable" color for even less.

uggh, 1.5 TB external Seagate's have been retailing on sale for under $150 for many months now, internals can be had for $120.

Not small, portable USB-powered ones.

Boast

Right. I have a stack of those Passport drives. I have a personal one for music etc and a work one for supplementing my MB Air and containing work documents when I travel. I have several older ones too, with backups, photos, Lightroom files etc. I have been very happy with them.

I've got three of them and, as soon as the 500gb one goes on sale again, I'll get more. I carry two with me. One contains a complete backup of my laptop (which has a 320gb internal drive). As my laptop contains OEM Vista and I have no way to repair a corrupt system file, the backup gives me a way around system restore, in case I don't have restore points going back far enough. The other drive contains all my documents, serial numbers and downloaded software. That's also the one that I put movies on. These little drives are terrific!

I have several WD Passports, and they were my fave (80GB, 160GB, 250GB, 320GB) however I find that I now prefer the Seagate 500GB portables, not least because they were always on sale for $5 less, and up until recently one got the free dock and the nice leather case. I generally travel with two of these and have assigned the WD's to other tasks....

Backups of photos and media of course!

And still multiple copies to be safe.

... and and offsite copy too ;)


My current storage:
Small Portable: 16gb Sandisk Cruzer
Portable with a reader: GigaOne 40gb
Portable: Segate FreeAgentGo 250gb (I had about 1Gb space left on the laptop and 5Gb on the GigaOne - I was desperate at the time)
Home: 1 x Maxtor Basics 1TB (which I am going to rip appart at it is sluggish) and a Maxtor 500GB OneTouch (a nice fast performer)

If I had the money, I'd get an LTO4, a spare media library, a 6TB RAID6 and be done with it completely...

Do these heat up and suffer as a result? We used a Lacie drive at work (can't remember the size) and it blew thanks to the thing getting too hot, IT said that they couldn't do a thing with it and that "we did have backups right?" I may be doing some shopping for one of those passport jobs and in fact they are listed in the same catalogue as the others I've just noticed. or I might pick one up whilst next stateside.