An easier way to deal with this might be to purchase the unit with more hard drive space than you think you will need. Judging from other posts on this BBS, a good rule of thumb would be to take the maximum amount of storage you think you'll ever need, then double it, and you should then be OK for about a year before you run out. If you purchase it with a single 25 GB hard drive, you should have over 400 hours of storage, enough for most people. If you will need more than 400 hours in the forseeable future, then start out with two drives to begin with.

I think that, from a reliability point of view, a large single drive would be a better choice than two smaller drives, even if the large drive costs more. (Half as many drives = half the likelihood of a drive failure, or am I being naive and simplistic here?)

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