getting overwhelmed

[gduns - with the Lord]

Fwiw:
I have tried all the compression ratio's on hoster, and I see no difference. when you get yours try first and compare. of course the smaller the number, the more disks you can get on a drive.

I have a maxtor 200 gig external, and have 20,000 songs (1500 cd's) karaoke, and 32,000 songs dj music. with about 80 gigs free. never had it get hot. and the maxtor will format in ntfs file system, where some of them won't.

Good luck.