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I am using a MAC and have the latest edition of iTunes. What does it mean that Mac can read "NTFS disk and read/write FAT32 disk? I get the rest of the comments . . which I appreciate.

To clear it up further, the plan is buy a Drobo with sufficient capability to handle about 3500 CDs which will come in as wav. Since the Mac can't handle that much memory by itself, should I assume that most of this music will have to be pulled directly from the Drobo for listening? What about album artwork?

I have just started another thread to find out how to "upgrade" my existing album artwork in iTunes. Some of it is crystal clear and some of it looks like I have cataracts. I can't delete the bad artwork without deleting all of the music as well.

Many thanks to each of you so far that offered advice.

Got it Sidssp: As soon as I get the Drobo I will make the switch from the Cavalry HD to the Drobo and give the Cavalry to my friend for downloading his stuff to me. I presume that I will then bring "his music" into iTunes from the Cavalry, make the conversion from wav. to aiff. and then download the converted files back out of iTunes into the new Drobo along with my existing library.

Here's the other question though: Will my friend's artwork come with the music and if so, when I pull music from the new Drobo will the artwork come up on the screen?

Since the "new library" will consume WAY more memory than my Mac, I assume that from now on I would be pulling music directly from the Drobo and not the internal memory of the iMac.

SIDSSP: Thank you for the easy to understand responses. Let me rephrase my last question - I don't think I was very clear.

My friend's library will consume well over 1TB of memory. My iMac has a 500GB capacity. Right now, all of my library (about 360 GB) is stored in the iMac memory AND on the Cavalry Ext. HD as a backup. When the new, bigger, library comes in, the iMac memory won't be able to handle it all so it will ALL go to the Drobo. Does this mean that when I play music that the Drobo will have to be on so that iTunes can access the music? (sounds like a really dumb question right now) If so, there would be no further point in keeping any music stored in the iMac internal HD, correct? IMac would, as you indicated, use only enough HD capacity to run iTunes and play the album.

Once the files are converted to aiff. presumably I could add the artwork and that also would be stored in the Drobo and be displayed via iTunes when an album is "called up" from the Drobo.