Help me find storage for my MP3 collection

external hard drives are good and all but all of them are prone to failure, corruption, and burnout. back stuff up to dvds for storage; get another external if you're running out of space and need easy access. but don't rely on it.

i share an mp3 collection w/a friend of mine. every couple months we swap new stuff, maintaining the same collection. when a drive fails (which is inevitable) it's backed up by the other person - even protecting against fire, theft and other local problems.

if you're not going to do that, get another drive or two and mirror that shit or you will lose it eventually. the cheapest way to run multiple external drives is to get a bay that fits a bunch of internal drives, like this one: http://cooldrives.com/qudrmifi80dr.html

that hard drive would certainly work, but it seems a bit expensive--dunno about uk electronics discounters, but i can find a 400GB drive for $100US. you'd still need an enclosure (maybe $20 more), but £92.50 seems exorbitant.