[montag813]

I gather that one day, when hard drive storage is even greater than today, I might want to re-rip my songs at a higher bitrate.

I'm sure you can fit every CD you own, at 192 or even 320 quality, on one of these:

Above: LaCie Firewire 800/USB 2.0 1-Terrabyte Disk Array ($800)

[CFC__VRWC]

At work we just recently switched over to a 3 TB array as the primary network storage device. Our IT guy figures that'll hold us for a year to a year and a half, at the rate our GIS Department chews up storage with aerials and topographic data sets.

[savedbygrace]

Then when the drives get fried from overheating, you can have the pleasure of losing everything.

Instead, but a FW drive with fans. The heatsink enclosure on those is less than adequate, as many users can testify.

[antiRepublicrat]

I'm sure you can fit every CD you own, at 192 or even 320 quality, on one of these:

Or switch iTunes to use Apple Lossless.