SSD are much more expensive but much quieter and more reliable. Ripping music is a lot of work. It stinks when the drive fails. You should either have a pc, NAS or second drive to back up to, especially if not using a solid state drive.
External Hard Drive
Looking to purchase an external hard drive to attach to my Naim Uniti Star. It will be used to rip cd's onto through the Uniti Star as well as hold hi res music downloads. I've heard that Western Digital makes good external drives. Are there much differences in the ones they make? Mybook line? Elements line? Passbook? Does the power make much of a difference (self powered vs usb powered? Thinking of somewhere between 1 TB and 8 TB (likely 4 TB or 8 TB). Thoughts? Thanks!