[MacDV] Looking for more storage?

[Trueman H. Hight]

>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

Last week I tried to start up my G4 Dual and all I could get from the 
HD  was a click-click-click. I tried everything I could think of but 
nothing worked. I wasn't too worried about my files as I had them 
backed up on a Maxtor 80 gig external HD.  I replaced the HD on the 
computer, reinstalled the system and the apps. I wanted to wait until 
I had plenty of time to reinstall the backed up material. Well, I am 
sure you have already guessed what happened. This morning I started 
up the computer and low and behold the external HD with all the 
backed-up material began to click-click-click. Nothing I have tried 
has helped.
I ordered Disk Warrior and will try that.  All I know is that in the 
future I will rely on removable media and duplicate copies of those 
real important files.

Trueman Hight