External Hard Drive Capacity.........


At the risk of committing heresy,here goes.

If I get a Creative Sound Labs MP-3 player,to use as an external hard drive,can I record 44.1,rebook standard on it,to use through a USB port or into a digital audio recorder to my two channel system?

If so,how many minutes(or hours) will fill 1GB of capacity?

I see on sale one that is 6gb and one that is 8gb,and I'm wondering how many cds(roughly) I could transfer to each one?

Thank you all.
pragmatist
As a rough guide, a redbook CD will be about 600 megabytes. Depending on the length of the CD, go up or down a bit from that. So I'm thinking maybe 80 minutes max of wav files in a gigabyte.
OIf you are set to using an external hard drive, why not go for broke, and get a Maxtor 1TB (terabyte) Onetouch 3?
The maxtor site suggests you can get 16,000 hours of music out of it.
I am not sure about how you will get it to you system but, if you keep the files as .wav (redbook) you will get about 100 minutes per gig.