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Obviously would be nice, but a simple solution is to get a couple 16-32GB flash drives, or just burn a bunch of audio CDs and re-rip (though you are essentially compressing audio files twice and they will lose a lot of fidelity).
I agree... Compact Flash is the way to go. Pop in, pop out, add, edit, erase, delete... I love mine.