Running on zip disks isn't too practical. That's about a zip for 1 or 2 CDs worth of music (depending on 100 or 250 Meg zips.) Reminds me of project I saw elsewhere on the web, where someone used a Sony MDH-10 to record MP3s on 140Meg minidiscs. What's the point? We want lots of media-less storage. The only thing that would be better than what empeg has now, would be the solid-state 100Gig "drives" that the U.S. military use in jet fighters. Those would be interesting