It used to be

It used to be that I'd be able to fit everything in my computer on CD-ROM. Then I got a DVD burner, and I then did all my back-ups to DVD. Now, I don't have the patience (or the DVDs). Now, I'm using my two spare hard drives for back-ups. It took some rearranging of my computer hardware (mainly moving drives around so I don't have to fight cables…). The main advantage to this is it's a lot quicker to write to a hard drive than it is to a DVD/CD, and you don't need special software to use a hard drive. And the fact that a 160 gig hard drive has slightly more space than a 4.7 gig DVD may also prove to be a slight advantage...