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External hardd drive can crash????

Yes. Which is why I keep after you to not only save to the hard drive, but also burn the files to CD or DVD.  An external hard drive is just a hard drive that is sitting outside of your computer tower.  It can crash just as easily as the one inside your computer.

I currently have 1 external hard drive. I want to get a second one that I can mirror the files onto. But I also burn my files to DVD so that in the event of a hard drive crash, I still have the files on DVD.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi