Greetings!

...and, yes, I read the FAQ and the warnings...

I am looking to upgrade the 2 x 20GB hard drives that are in my empeg to 2 x the new IBM 48GB drives. My questions are:

1) Has anyone used, or have seen any problems with these drives?

2) Does the drive formatting utility work to wipe / stress test both drives simultaneously (i.e., any drive plugged in), or would I need to do each drive individually? The FAQ refers to making certain to unplug any drive you want to save the data from, but it does not state if both the wipe and stress test will span the two drives.

3) Has anyone had problems copying music data from two source drives (i.e., /drive0/fids and /drive1/fids) and merging them onto a new single drive as the target (i.e., /drive0/fids on the new high capacity drive)? I fully expect to loose my loaded collection anyway, and will need to load the rest, but this will get me through that painful transition period if it works.

Any thoughts or comments welcome. I will let everyone know how the upgrade goes when complete.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB soon to be 96GB Smoke)