You have 24K *songs*. The original poster says he has just acquired 21K *CDs*. Think at least 10 times what you've ripped and 10 times the disk space required. You'd need something like an Xserve RAID to store an iTunes library that big. On 29 Mar 2005, at 05:09, Robert Ameeti wrote: > I think not. While I did start ripping my CDs a year or so ago, the > length of time is all about the speed of the processor. I found great > pleasure with the purchase of newer computers and seeing my ripping > time decrease dramatically. I currently have around 24,000 songs > ripped and it takes up about 90 GB. As for the length of time, I > don't know but do note that I've ripped my collection twice cuz I > wanted to do it at a different rate as times have changed.