I had a hard disc failure a few weeks back. No effective backups of course, which meant I basically lost everything. The disc was only 18 months old too - ah well. You live and learn. I now have a 1/3 terrabyte of space over 2 DiamondMax 10 discs, some imaging softare and a backup schedule! I even bought myself a Sony dual layer DVD burner to store the disc images on.

I really like the DVD burner. They seem to be pretty much there with creating a drive that means you can stop worrying about the various +/- formats. This thing handles them all - and it's fast!