Online storage for iTunes media

Hi all,
I was storing my whole iTunes library on my external hard drive, but on Monday it just stopped working (all the more infuriating because it is only 4 months old). However, this is not the first time that this has happened as 4 months ago I got the new drive because the old drive stopped working after 11.5 months!
Short of reloading all 68GB of media (AGAIN!), does anyone know if you can store your media online at a reasonable price, like under $10 per month?

There's Carbonite.com that offers free and paid storage at a maximum of $4 per month. But I don't recommend uploading 64GB of files to a server. If you think that loading these to a hard drive is slow, it is still much faster than uploading to an online server. Its going to take hours to upload everything. Since its only 4 month old, I'm sure that the warranty is still valid. Try contacting the company and get a replacement.

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