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Geoff Mackenzie wrote:
My point is that while I've had a few failures on the audio system(s)
over the years - mainly blown fuses, an arcing failure on the ESL, a
burnt out valve etc - I've never had one which caused me to lose my
entire record/CD collection! Entirely possible with a PC based
solution, whether from a virus, unspecified bugs or simply Bill Gates
waking up with a hangover and deciding to render all previous releases
obsolete.

It's quite easy these days to make backups of stuff to prevent an HD
failure being catastrophic. Can also be done automatically. Things like a
RAID array of HDs do this by themselves. HDs are so cheap now it makes
sense to do so.

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