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I've got Doctor Who WiP #2 done, except that this morning at one a.m. Debugmode Wax decided it hated minute 1:05 of my audio file, and it keeps hating it no matter what I do. I've reexported the .wav from the Audacity project. I've opened up the original mp3 and reedited it and reexported it. All of the files, so far, are having the same problem. All of them were working properly until this point. Very puzzling. ETA: Resolved, apparently through the power of prayer and restarting a lot. Technology, when will you cease to baffle me?

This is not the first indication that I may be headed for some Computer Troubles, and while I'm going to try to keep fixing this laptop as long as possible, it's going to suck when the harddrive goes and takes all my files with it. I'm thinking I need to look into external storage, and soon.

Does anyone have thoughts on external harddrives, good brands, reasonable prices, etc?

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I just bought a 350G "My Book" last week and it's been wonderful so far. Plug and play. No problems. And it only cost about $120. Which, for 350G, I was pretty happy with

Oo, that is an attractive price right there. I will look into this!

My main requirement is that it never ever break, ever, but I guess I'll have to take a chance on that.

I hate to give the coporate monster Wal-Mart my money, but that's where I got it.