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In pub/club situation stuff like beer gets spilt, the connectors are not 'industrial strength' so you need to be very careful with them. (Imagine turning up and your PC can't see any of your music because the connector has broken.) and its extra wires/power requirements, more stuff to go wrong which invariably means it will.

re Davo, when you have a USB disk connected it is just as vunerable for viruses to wipe/corrupt/ etc as your internal HD. About the only saving grace is that if they mess it up whilst its not connected you still have the music. in reality it offers no more protection than having a seperate partition on the same disk ( thinking about it it is more likely to be bashed about which HDs don't like, particularly when powered up)

Willow, for a careful lady owner like I'm sure you are :D you should be fine. :D

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I suppose storage is storage... music or pictures.. I have an external 320 gig HD but I also have every picture on CD or DVD (around 160 gig of pictures stored twice) so always two copies at any one time. Same should apply for muic or anything else important thats stored.

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how much disc space would it take for around 40,000 tracks? i would not no were to start with splitting my disc space.just no most dj using laptops use hd via usb

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Entwisi already gave you that answer... 10k at av 4mb is 40 gig.. so 40k at same avearage is..... 160 gig

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i am thick thanks for that so i would have to carrey three of my laptops around lol

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or buy a decent sized laptop drive and swap it over, some laptops do have room for two drives internally but these do tend to be at the dearer end of the scale.

Kipax, I do hope that at least one set is 'off site' just in case your house burn down! I wouldn't want you to lose all those images!!!!! :D

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Thanks for all your input guys/gals.

I should have said that I have an extenal HD that I can use, also have every track backed up to main pc and cd (putting them on cd took bloody ages!!)

So I guess Im looking at a laptop with a tv/audio out and paying more money!! Oh well you dont know if you dont ask!

Will have a look around the shops now, thanks again peeps!

Pete

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The only daft question is a question not asked.

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cheerfull ****** aint ya :)

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Thats my role in life! :D

You should see what sort of pessimistic stuff I have to think about at work!