Emily writes > Get a mac. In 14 years I've only had a hard drive fail once. that's a sense of security that's frightening! Apple don't make hard drives (nor much at all really..) so you're using the same drives everyone else uses. I get business recovering hard drives for mac users who have never, ever backed up because they thought macs infallible (!) Admittedly the turnover of machines seems higher with a lot of mac users, so I guess the drives aren't seeing as much life as some intel/amd desktops and laptops, but.. please people, don't think it'll last just because it has an apple badge on it ! Data recovery costs *a lot* karl