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External FireWire HD
I've been meaning to get an external mass-storage device for several months now but today I actually went out (to the local Apple store) and got one; A LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface (FW, FW-Extreme, USB 2.0). The hardware setup instructions were great: 3 easy steps entirely illustrated with simple diagrams that did not require any text. The software instructions couldn't be simplified to that extent but, as it turned out, OS X did not actually require any software setup at all anyway.

There was an OS X data backup utility called SilverKeeper included on the accompanying CD-ROM. I'd actually been using it for a while in the past but this was a slightly newer version so I upgraded it and told it to backup my entire home directory, which is slightly over 4 gigs (mostly thanks to all the photographs I've been taking since I got my new camera). FireWire Extreme is impressively fast and the entire process was already over by the time I had a shower.

Now I don't have to worry about data-loss if I inadvertently lose or destroy my Powerbook :-)