What can I do with this spacious drive? If it crashs on me then my lifetime photos, videos are gone forever. So, Backup, backup, backup. How many times a YEAR did the people do a full backup?

You're absolutely right. You shouldn't EVER store anything important on a computer.

Life will continue even if you lose your 2 TB of porn.

#3 this happened to me once. Suffice to say, I was utterly devastated.

Only lazy people don't do back up...Or they only do meaningless things and have no meaningful file/data.

Who has more that 100 GB of data?

I'm not sure I'd back up 2TB online, but do yourself a favor and sign up for Carbonite, Mozy, or one of the other similar services. Backing up becomes pretty much automatic and you are protected even if your house burns down or something.

Backup is simple, buy 2 drives, and use 1 only for backup of data. Use a drive that is "green" and is basically off when not backing up or restoring. The data will be there if the other drive dies. For the real paranoid (like me), network the other drive and run it on a seperate power supply. Use two UPS units.

#8, I've lost data due to ligntning strikes..

Drop another $75 off and it might actually be worth buying.

If you are smart enough to NOT buy DVD or BluRay movies anymore then you will have more than 100GB of data.

Run two Velicoraptors as a RAID 0 (C Drive) & two of these 2TB drives as a RAID 1 (D drive)

Carbonite doesn't let you backup files larger then 4GB.

i would pay $150 for this

code EMCLSNM47 takes $10 off

@Bonzo100:
a RAID1 or RAID10 would be a lot more efficient than copying to a networked drive. If you're worried about your PSU frying all of the attached devices, you could simply install a secondary PSU in your computer. As for 2 UPSs... that's some intense redundancy.

@goldenboyfx:
A UPS should solve that issue.

i've got about 2.5 tb on my machine

@nikko:
Considering that RAID 1 and 10 are used for data redundancy, they are inherently a form of "backup" (as "backing up" data means creating data redundancy).

As an example, how is having two drives with the same data in a computer functionally different from having the same data on two different computers? The end result: redundant data in two places.

The downside of using RAID is that the data is still housed in a single box whereas external or networked solutions are not.

Very good point #18. Thanks.

Has anyone actually tried backing up a FULL (or nearly full) 2 TB disk? How many hours (or days) does it take to transfer a full WD20EADS to an identical disk?