Greetings!

I never found out (for certain) what happened. I suspect it had nothing to do with the empeg or the drives, though. All of the missing songs came from two specific CD-R archives. (I encoded all of my CDs while on the waiting list for the empeg, and burned them to CD-R.) There were errors on both of the CD-Rs that songs were missing from. Normally, I copy to hard drive before emplode, but for these two, I did not. I am guessing that they just didn't sync.

I have not had any replication of this problem, or any problems since.

The issue with the disk builder did seem to happen to me. Even if it did, the 30 is within its normal range, so you should be OK.

[disclaimer] Of course, always back up your data before doing any hard drive upgrade... [/disclaimer]

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)