Anyone use the buffalo mini station?

I'm looking at a buffalo mini station 320gb to take on my vacation. It looks like it uses a hitachi 2.5 drive. I'm totally paranoid about hard drive and memory card failure, so I'm going to be as redundant as possible. I may even buy two of them and mirror everything while on vacation.

I have other eide drive enclosures, but those are pretty bulky for vacation. Anyone use the buffalos?

I use THESE drives and every one had withstood a good amount of punishment (dropped, muddy, one was kicked across a room... I don't know a better drive save Panasonic's Tough series.

Memory cards are cheap... take 32GB, or whatever you think you'll use. Back up to a storage device as a backup, keep it apart from the CF cards to protect against theft.

On holiday I don't take many photos, so you might not even need much memory.

So your thinking leave the photos on the cards as well. I have almost 20gb in cards right now, but was planning to dump them to a drive and use them again. Maybe I should order some more cards. Gotta hurry though, leaving on the 21st.

Being a hobbyist, this vacation is all about taking pictures. I'm hoping to capture my best images yet.

Why not have the vacation about being a vacation, and take a few photos along the way?

Cause photography is my vacation! Now if I was a pro like you, I would probably want a break on vacation.

Fair enough On my holiday in a month i'll take a DSLR, but i'll also take my Mums little camera cause it fits in my pocket.