Portable Hard Drives

I use a ipod classic..lol 160gb with a ipod camera adaptor in the field, at home I transfer to a WD/My Book 1tb external firewire drive.

The prices on these external drives are keep falling. In the U.S., there's new low prices during this Labor Day holiday sale on WD's and Seagates...

As a person who has lost 100GB of stuff recently due to 2 hard drives failing, both from one manufacturer, one an external and one internal on my PC, keep putting them on CD, even after you start using external hard drives. I am now storing everything on CD and duplicate external hard drives. When I rebuild my old PC, I'll be using the new hard drive on that too. I thought I had it covered when I started backing up to my new ext. hard drive and a second hard drive I installed in my PC. My computer crashed and burned and when I tried to transfer the new files from the ext. hard drive it seized up and became a paperweight. I was stupid, I know that. When storing information, on any medium, NEVER assume it is going to be there in a years time or longer. Review the important stuff regularly and store it in 3 or more spots. Files can 'disappear' from CD's I have been told.

I have a USB powered laptop drive enclosure but stopped using it for now as I really don't want to have more things dangling off my laptop. Instead I invested in a secondary drive enclosure that goes in my optical drive bay. That puts the 2nd drive inside my laptop and connected at the highest speeds possible, while still being easily removable for security. I've also partitioned a small section for use as a Photoshop Scratch Disk.

Win-win.