Hi Kozykeys,

I, too, bought the SX-3 when Technote was running a special offer and paid, I believe, £199. I bought it for future use, so have not used it yet. The latest (Feb 2002)edition of Technote magazine contains a detailed article explaining how to use the SX-3 hard drive. I suggest you get a copy of the magazine if you buy the hard drive. Maybe Technote still has one or two drives on the shelf at the sale price? It is safe to say loading from a hard drive is much faster than loading from a floppy, but storage space is the single most important advantage of a hard drive in my opinion. I think the hard drive will store around 11,000 songs? Not sure, but how many floppies would you need to store that much information? Hundreds? That is the reason I bought a hard drive.