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More and more of your life is probably being distilled into 1s and 0s and placed onto the fragile platters inside your computer. Cheap, writable optical drives are far too common to let fear get you down. Do something about it, man!
I recently bought a couple Sony Dual-Layer DVD writers for the office. That's 8.5GB on a single shiny disc, my friend. If you haven't checked out hardware prices in a while you're probably thinking "Wow, that's some pretty amazing technology. They must sell for several hundred thousand dollars, right?"
WRONG!
These things are $61. ExtremeTech has a new article about dual-layer DVD burners you may want to check out. Interestingly, the drive technology is more advanced than the media; DL discs are hard to come by, as are 8x DVD+R.
It's also worth noting that Picasa 2 is out, which is much improved and includes DVD-writing backup functionality. This is especially attractive because it does differential backups.
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