Three years ago I bought one of these
I was putting all my CD's into storage and I spent ages transferring music from CD to MP3 so I could still have a wide selection to listen to. It had a 20Gb hard drive and therefore held a lot of albums.
I used it all the time and then just over a year ago it broke, just before we went to Australia, and I was gutted. I have a sneaking suspicion that it was the magnet on my phone case that caused the damage. Either way it was the hard drive and to repair it was going to cost as much as buying a new one - so I couldn't do it.
I bought a 2Gb one from Dixons and loaded some music onto that but it wouldn't play albums and therefore I just had it on shuffle never knowing what was coming next. That one packed up after 8 months and the replacement would play albums but only if I edited the track name of each track to start with 01,02,03 etc.
Also 2GB was never enough and I never seemed to have anything I fancied listening to on it when I got it out.
So I really wanted a new 20Gb machine but I couldn't afford a new one. Luckily I found one on ebay and managed to win it for £45 which I now have loaded with music. The problem was which CD's to leave off - I could have filled it twice over and still had CD's to leave off!!
I notice that ipod now do a 160Gb ipod classic - now that would be more like it (if only it wasn't an ipod!) but they are about 300 quid each and I guess I'd need 3 (or 4) 
