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Hello and thank you both for the additional information...This is a bit of a scary new world in as much as such volumes of music are available yet the intangibility / vulnerability factors of the medium are quite unsettling... Especially compared to a vinyl or silver disc...

Hello Icevic and thank you for your prompt and thorough advice. Today I took my first step towards backup by purchasing an 8TB WD My Book which I will fill with as much of my music as I can... Of course when/ if it is truly full I will assess how much more space I need [if I do...] and buy another My Book of adequate ( or somewhat bigger) size to store the rest. I will store it off premises and occasionally update it with my newest additions. This seems to me to be the most straight-forward version of [ hopefully] safe and reliable insurance. In fact, if one 8TB fits it all then maybe I'll consider another one to make it a double secure scenario. Thanks again for your help.

Hello All, I'm a long term audiophile but a novice computer user... especially computer audio; but that has recently changed. I pretty much jumped in with both feet and joined this site looking for some music storage advice. I just purchased a Lampizator DSD Komputer which is now substituting for my cd transport and feeding into my Lampizator Big7 Dac... My "computer audio buddies" have been pushing me to take the plunge for a long time and have all tempted me with the promise of giving me lots of music for the computer... So I did And they did And I really want to reliably back up all this new music. All I did was purchase 3 WD MyBooks ... One is a 3TB, one is a 4TB and the other I can't recall is either a 3 or a 4TB... I also have a small Seagate "Back up plus slim" 2TB.... Each unit has a serious percentage of its capacity filled with music...I think it's all a mix of higher rez 24/96 or more, as well as quite a bit of DSD and it all feeds into the Dac via a nice USB cable one of my trusted cable makers swears by. To my ears, and I mean no insult to anyone or their medium preferences, it's the first computer based delivery system that didn't obviously remind me where it was stored. And that's saying a lot. OTOH the obvious advantage of such libraries of music access is astounding and "designer - drug- addictive" but until now I refused to let that very convenience sway my decision [until I was convinced the actual auditory quality was up to snuff]. Well, it took me a looong time but I'm convinced that this combination IS working for me now. So, who can recommend how to replicate all this music in one big consolidated "box" where it will always be safe and 'sound' ( pun ?)... A friend has a Raid 5 which I read about on this thread... So...What is it? How does it work, cost? A good choice,?...or is there something even more reliable without breaking the bank? I could still use the individual Mybooks knowing they are backed up elsewhere or I could use the main consolidated unit for listening and keep the individual books as backup? Whatever makes the most sense....fwiw I use a remote android based tablet via a wireless "transducer?" plugged into an extra usb port on the back of the Komputer which connects via something called Amanerro 384... An App that I paid for and now seems to link up reliably. There is no other computer or laptop used or connected in the system... That's about it and pretty much all I know about it... Help...comments...? Thanks in advance!