> What am I missing? Money - The cost factor of buying the new HDD. And to be safe, you need to have more than one medium. That's again more cost. Time - Ensu

> What am I missing? Money - The cost factor of buying the new HDD. And to be safe, you need to have more than one medium. That's again more cost. Time - Ensuring that your existing machine is compatible with both your old and new disks (IDE vs SATA or working DVD drives for example).