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That sounds like an excellent plan. I figure that it's better to be on the side of "overkill" than under. Locally, I have Time Machine backups done automagically every hour going back to Nov. 24, 2022. Backblaze always rotates my stuff every year - which is more than enough time to retrieve anything that goes wAcKy. What I'd (probably) ultimately want to do is get reasonably priced 8TB SSDs and then I can restore Backblaze data onto them and send the original Backblaze drive back for a refund.

or Jan Jock Nosh.

My use of drives is probably "unconventional" because I never move them from their location and the thought of replacing 2 dozen+ TB of drives with SSDs would have me at the local 7-11 buying lottery tickets. As is said "your mileage may vary": I use my Passport to run a little "in house" version of a personal radio station that runs continuously - often, all day - and it's been that way since January 19, 2021. In other words, everything stays put and is never moved around. Yes, always have backups no matter what drives you decide on. At home ... at a friend's house ... and somewhere "in the cloud." I have a Backblaze account that's absolutely wonderful and cheap that allows me to copy and download instantly or, if desired, sent to me on 8TB (HDD) drives.

It's not really a "right" or "wrong" thing. It's whatever fits your needs. It's just good to know what the differences are. SSDs are especially good for quickly powering up your computer if you're anxious about such things. As you'll notice in that WD link you sent, there's an SSD version and when you click on it, you'll see that it costs almost twice as much, so that's sometimes a deterrent to some folks. 😄 BTW, none of my stuff is currently on SSDs - only because I'm waiting for the prices to go lower - coupled with the gleem I have in my eye for finally getting a new computer soon. Also, I'd have the (completist) feeling that I'd have to port all of this music over too, and that's something I'm not ready to do yet. ...but, that Passport is nice and small (I use one) and most of my other HDDs are big ol' clunky WDs that work great!

An SSD has no moving parts. An HDD: Different forms of SSDs: The Apple Music interface has very little (if anything) to do with the transfer process going haywire (unless you have a situation where you're unable to listen to any of your files thru Apple Music). The amount of music I've successfully transferred from drives to Apple Music:

^^^^^^ Yes, this! ^^^^^^

It's very possible. Most of the time, yes, information is smoothly transferred, but there can be the occasional glitch that happens due to very small electronic or mechanical interruptions in the process - especially with very large quantities being transferred off of a mechanical disc. I've moved literally over a million tunes from drives and am not surprised when a few, here and there, don't completely make it intact. If you need replacements on those two, just let me know.

I generally try not to read books by people with serious mental illness.

Ragas Malkauns & Sohini: Kirana Gharana ca. 1960 by Pandit Yeshwantrai Purohit

Wonderful release that blends in nicely with the light storm we have going on now.

last night's show...

The voice occasionally falters, but it adds to the preciousness of its sound. Have always loved that beautiful legato playing on keys. A couple weeks ago, I added a cut from it to my upcoming March 13 show.

This might be of some help to some.

Yes! You're correct! Heard it in my brain, then typed it wrong. They've been so much a part of my life since the 60s and've bought, I think, just about everything that's ever been commercially available from them: audio, video, texts, t-shirts, bumper stickers ... even down to my 20 year old license plate holder. TTK mentioned one community station. That's not necessarily NPR. But, yes, it's true about the ideas behind community radio. One of the first people I got to work for and with (I was still in high school), was the pioneer of community radio himself, Lorenzo Milam, and that idea of freedom of the airwaves was the constant motivating force for him. The station that airs my show is in Silver City, New Mexico. Canada, tho having some wonderful aspects to it, still has the same problems with their approach to the pandemic that we unfortunately have, so there's that form of insanity, but as for insanity/sq.kilometer, it's at a much lower level.