I dont need no stinking backusp ! LOL just joking, I am the "you need to back your data up"posterchild ! One of my 100gb hard drives took a dump on me last weekend and i lost alot of data ,all my projects i was working on for community release. I am just now able to talk about it without and major emotional eruption. Tape backup is DEAD , long live the CD. CD are the best way to go , cheap and easy but small in size.By far the most cost effective solution at the moment. A back up HD WILL eventually fail its in their nature. Perhaps a really short term solution at best. Bleeding edge DVD burners are at the moment really expensive and the standard was JUST now agreed upon my the powers that be. large media and costly all together at the moment, but that will change... How else are we going to be able to backup out 100+ gb harddrives. I mean really we are aproaching the 200gb retail HD and DVD can only handle like 4.7gb. They are working on larger capacity DVD media but thats a ways off still. Well its back to the drawing board for me May all your data be safe and happy rendering, Jeff