Funny you should bring that up, Escamillo! All my hard drives (I have three machines, with two in each) are in drive caddies, and I have at least a dozen or so other drives I can swap in and out.

One machine is mainly for sound work, one is my CD writer, and the other is this one - the internet machine!

Have you considered writable CDRoms? A CD writer is about the same price as an HDD, and these days I'm paying about 35p (UK) which I think is less than 50c (?) per CD.

I use mine to back up graphics files and other space wasting data files. BTW, does anyone know how to produce a bootable CD?

I know cheap CD's get bad press for reliability, but I've found that if they write correctly in the first place, by looking after them carefully, they are reliable enough. The coating which is the disk surface is usually somewhat brittle, so be careful not to use sticky labels - the surface just pulls off! I use white board marker pens!

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