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I have been using computers since the mid 80's and portables/;laptops since 1987. I have never had a hard drive failure on any device. The laptops logged well over 4 million miles of air travel to every continent save for Antartica. Strictly for music in my home system I have have run McIntosh MS-300, Olive 4HD, and now the MC200. No failures there either. You go ahead and waste money on back-up hardware or paying for cloud storage. If my MC200 dies I will just purchase the newest generation of whatever and reload the music I listen to, culling those albums I never listen to anyhow.

I'm exporting for Roon presently, and losing a fair number of tracks due to errors. Sooloos shows them as corrupted.

Wow... each to his own.

Reminds me of the story about the old lady that lived to 100 and she smoked every day of her life. Ergo... smoking is not bad for you.

I'd say statistically your due one. (But I hope not)

You've had good luck. I did, too, until a few months ago when my hard drive failed. Then, a portable thumb drive with important current data also went bad. I now have a nice new computer but it's missing some files I'll never be able to recreate. Now with a little discipline and a simple "my passport" drive, I'll have backups for the stuff I care about. The drive cost was minimal but the discipline is the hard part.

Just to be clear. I am not saying others are wrong by backing up files as insurance. Like any other insurance you weigh risk versus reward. For myself I would see a crash as an opportunity to rid myself of music I no longer care to listen to. I am into playing music not collecting it. None of my music is irreplaceable.

How long would it take you to re-rip, say your fave 2000 CD's out of the 4000 that you have on the system?

For me that would take weeks... many weeks. I am happy to pay for avoiding that time lost.

For £50/$50 I would be ready to go again in minutes.

I agree with NCPL it's not the music it's your time that is of real value. You can delete music anyway or ignor it. But the time to re-import even 500 discs after finding them etc when you have already invested in the work makes no sense to me. For £100 perhaps you can be covered. What's your time worth?

Just a thought. Chris

One persons chore is another persons opportunity.

I'm with Jim, I don't have a Sooloos music backup and if I did lose it I would take the opportunity to reorganise things which would be harder to do retrospectively than starting a fresh.

Ian

Do you have backups of your PC's?

Russ

Absolutely agree Ian.

I have had only minor hassle with my C15. Sure somethings could be better on the software side, but it delivers the Music, and now we have Tidal, so much better.

Regards Huw

Yes, I have backups where backups are needed. But the backups for my music collection are in CD Jewel cases and if I want instant gratification, sporadically spread over HDD's pulled from 15+ years of PC's, the remains from my Tidal trial and Radio which is my normal audio source.