Do You Leave Your MPC On All The Time?

I have to leave my MPC on all the time until I record all my beats to my pc because of course if I turn it off, I lose everything. What do you guys do to preserve your beats and sounds all loaded up in the mpc? I have a zip drive, problem is though is that I load all my sounds from cds into the mpc. If I take out the cdrom scsi and put the zip drive into the mpc, it won't recognize it unless I turn it off and back on. So I find myself just leaving my MPC on all the time, which I don't like to do.

Now I found a site that sells external scsi hard drives for the mpc, which I think I would probably need in this case, but what do you guys do as far as that?

two words... SCSI chain

all u need to do is get another scsi cable and run ya zip to ya cd then to ya mpc.

That simple? lol man.. I figured it was possible to do both but never bothered to look into it. But as far as that hard drive for it.. think it's worth it?

Here is a link if anyone was curious:

http://www.scsiforsamplers.com/all_products.html?HD-4c

spectre wrote:two words... SCSI chain

:D

Well to answer your question yes i leave my 2k on but not b/c of the reasons u stated. But the longest i have ever left it on was 2 days.

I have left mine on for months...I have done this since I got it like 4-5 years ago...BUT, my screen is completely unreadable unless you know your way around the machine...So...take my advice, it may seem like no big deal...and honestly, a couple of days won't hurt it...but months take their toll after time...