Merry Christmas all. I have two laptops. What I do is image both of them to a USB external drive. If one of the laptops fails I can hook the other up and continue the show. Then simply drop a new drive in the one with the bad drive and boot it from the bootable cd and restore the image on the new drive. It is all in what you like. I also keep a complete backup of all my song files on the external. I just cannot imagine losing all 3 drives at the same time. To each his own. Happy Holidays.