quote: Wiping the drive and reformatting would be hard, though; I've got a lot of stuff on here, it'd take me quite a while to back it all up.

Yes DVD burners (particularly RW) are great. Just as cost effective is an external HDD, which will probably be faster still. (I say that b/c I've been considering getting one myself. The HDD quickly fills up when you have lots of raw video (over 200 MB/min for standard video or over 1 GB for HD.) DVD disks seems to pile up & up for me.) It depends which one will suit you best. DVD burners obviously give you other options such as to play movies.