Backing up important stuff-easier to back up whole drive rather than on DVD

I found this product and I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to get.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006HVII/002-3203094-7854466?n=172282
It sounds a lot easier than backing up my extensive photos on DVD's, not to mention all my programs and iTunes library.
Does this seem like a good idea to anyone? I'm just getting into "the back-up game" and this struck me as efficient. What do you think? Is there something else I should look at or some better strategy I should consider? Thanks!

It depends on what you want. That product is fine for someone who wants an automated system over which you have little control. It also has a very slow hard drive (cheap) that would probably be OK for someone with a laptop that also had a slow hard drive, but would not be optimum for a Desktop machine with a faster 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm hard drive. I'm assuming the size of the drive is at least equal or larger than the drive you plan to backup.
If you were willing to learn how to use backup software and have something a little less "automated", you could get something better and less costly. For example,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00013MSWY/sr=1-7/qid=1135705411/ref=sr17/104-4332026-2318311?%5Fencoding=UTF8
You can use that drive with a variety of different backup utilities including Carbon Copy Cloner or LaCie SilverKeeper (both free and available at www.versiontracker.com.) You can also make fully bootable clones using the Restore option of Disk Utility. For more sophisticated backup tools you can look at shareware products such as Synchronize! Pro X (my personal favorite), Deja Vu, Tri-Backup, and Retrospect (all but the latter at www.versiontracker.com. Retrospect is available at www.dantz.com.)
To learn more about backup and restore:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
And, visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore.

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