My main point was not if the drive does die on a trip, but it would be nice to know that there isn't a single point of failure with the hard drives in the empeg. Yes it would be cheaper to buy an standard ide hard drive, and download all my music. But it would be much cooler to just have a simple raid setup on the empeg so other people and i wouldn't have to worry about a hard drive killing thier music collection. A backup harddrive is a good idea, but this would require about 10mins of work after your first hard drive dies. Plus this drive wouldn't be an exact copy of your files, just a very outdated version.

wfaulk: I do have a 4gb drive from my mark1, i'm not sure if this would help you, but i could let you borrow it to help you add these features to our decks. Let me know