Looking for more storage?

[Doug Mitchell]

I have decided that I need to start doing regular backups of some of my 
critical data, but when I looked at my "users folder" for example I 
realized that it was about 6 gig so backing up to rewritable CD's is 
not a good option.  I recently purchased a 120 gig external firewire 
drive for my digital video files but I don't want to use this space to 
back up my main hard drive.  I could purchase a rewritable DVD drive or 
I could purchase another harddrive.  Do people have preferences?  I 
have a Quicksilver G4, dual 1Ghz machine which I hope to keep for some 
time.  Should I investigate installing a USB 2.0 or Firewire 800 card 
and then buy a new harddrive for my video?  I could then use the 120 
gig firewire 400 as my backup.  Are there huge advantages to using 
rewritable DVD's for backup?  Any advice would be most welcome.

Doug Mitchell