Itunes freezes with simple tasks

i have a big collection over 380 GB of music, im getting so upset at itunes. it started great but over time has decreased its value. i have stopped buying things from itunes. when i have itunes open simple things like scrolling down makes it freeze up. anyone have a suggestion. i have started to look at other music managers but do really like itunes, well at least use to.

I agree with you about your upgrade choice. Sticks of RAM aren't very expensive these days--it's a pretty cost-effective (and easy) way to upgrade your computer.
As far as external hard drives go--both of my backup hard drives are hooked up via firewire. I do occasionally use an USB external drive to transfer large files between computers--but it's not always attached to my computer. I haven't seen much of a difference in speed between firewire and USB when transferring data.
HOWEVER, I learned a very hard lesson about USB 2.0 and music on an external drive about two years ago. I made the unfortunate mistake of buying a Maxtor external drive that could hook up via firewire or USB. I already had one Maxtor hooked up via firewire, so I decided to use USB for my second drive and make it my dedicated music drive. I spent weeks ripping hundreds of CDs to this drive--at the time I had approx. 250 gb of music. One day I tried to play some music and was horrified to discover that this drive had mysteriously become "unformatted". I lost all of the music files. In my followup conversations with Maxtor (who replaced the drive because it was defective, by the way), I learned that it is preferable to hook up up external hard disks to Windows systems using firewire. Apparently USB devices preform a lot of I/O tasks and if something happens during one of these procedures the device can fail (my sad experience). Unfortunately no one tells you this in the sales literature. It takes a bad experience to learn this information.
After learning this, I purchased an internal drive for all of my music files--spent several more weeks re-ripping everything and then backed up the whole hard disk using the replacement drive I got from Maxtor (now hooked up via firewire). Things have worked just fine in the past two years--and I'm happy to know that I have a complete copy of all of my music files--should another hard drive failure happen at some point in the future.
As you know, there is nothing more boring than sitting hour after hour ripping hundreds of CDs to get a digital library set up! I hope I never have to do this job again!

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