Ripper makes me sound like someone who breaks the law - I have over 300 original files in my collection and your forgetting about music and photos as well - Also I have 4000 albums which is about 300 gig. Also I keep all my installs on a hard drive partition and also my cubase music projects - these can be upto a gig each. It all adds up - storage is the only thing I really get excited about as it a very nice feeling having lots of space to fill.