I'm five times as hard now

500 new acres to plow here boss.

As you know, I have a huge amount of media, and it's come to the point where I'm compressing files on my 100GB HD in order to keep a healthy amount of disk space for caching.  So, when I found a MAXTOR III, 500GB One Touch for $99.99 (Tiger), I bought it.  Then, and I bet you've done this too, then I started reading reviews.  Ass backwards, eh wot?  They were all pretty much the same.  "It's great, if you can get it to work."  Or,"it was great for the two months it worked. "  Gulp. I noted that the reviews were dated 2006, and early 2007, so I hoped that, even though it's been superseded with the One Touch 4, that Maxtor (Seagate) has corrected the software problems most cited. It arrived about an hour ago.  I've already copied my 9 GB music file to it, and am playing da music as we speak. The setup was a snap, even though it comes formatted for Apple, and I had to reformat it.  So far, so good. Since I don't have a firewire card, I'm using a USB 2.0 transfer, which is about half as fast.  Still, it seems fast enough. The thing is, I'm not sure I have the confidence to move all my media files to it, since if it suddenly fails, my goose is cooked.  I'll wait until I've had a few Manhattans, and say what the hell.  That always works.