i agree with MachineMan2005

thought i had a lot at nearly 60gigs - but Orion's is an impressive
although - they're all mine, not half from a spouse or gf or anything

Ermph. I should probably inform you that I'm waiting on an external drive to arrive before I rip the
rest of my collection. I ripped the wife's to get her off my back.
I estimate another 15-20Gb when I'm finally done... :shock:
not sure what to do with all my CDs though - if i get rid of them on ebay or something, it'd save a helluva lot of space.... but then what if the hard disk that's got all my iTunes music on goes to the big IDE Bus in the sky?
That's why I haven't got rid of mine. I just pack them into padded boxes and store them in the basement. I've currently got 1400+ cds, for something like 21300+ mp3s. Crated and stored about 1100 of them. That's 11 boxes of cds. (Anything more than a hundred to a box, the jewel cases start cracking. Not to mention, they get kinda heavy.)
I'm seriously thinking of setting up a RAID system to safeguard my music....
but also, i'd say only about 3/4 were obtained completly legally - some kinda fell off a load of newsgroups
Hah.
All of mine are legal. Figure USD$15 per cd x 1400cds.
Oh, crap. That's USD$21,000!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: