I am thinking of updating my iMac (OSX v10.6.8) to 10.9...

But I do not have a portable hard-drive to save all my data separately. As my iMac is 1TB, its quite hard to find a reliable portable hard-drive that's both durable and reliable.
I really would like to update to 10.9. To my knowledge, I have absolutely in no shape or form any kind of WD application or hard-drive (thank god).
Will any of the internal data (apps, photos, videos, music etc from different accounts) be lost if I decided to update now, without the backup?
Should I risk it?

As A Brody wrote ... Don't forget rosetta.
You have obviously had the machine some time and probably have many PPC apps, none of which will work with Mavericks. To check you could run through this link and compare with the apps you have.
Application compatibility table - RoaringApps
Frankly, Mavericks is a big step through two previous OS upgrades. I would stay put (and I follow my own thoughts here, I am sticking with SL).
Ah, just noticed A Brody's link includes Roaring Apps (in disguise).

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Hello All,
I've got an Issue with my 2007 Imac. I've been struggling with it for almost the entire day and night, and after trying every trick I've found online, I can't get anywhere. Incoming Wall-O-Text, apologies, but I want to be as detailed as I can.
So what happened before it all went down was... I was poking around trying to free up disk space, going through every major directory and analyzing its size. I poked around in a lot of hidden and system files, but I was very careful not to modify or delete any of these. The only files I deleted were in the following directories:
Note: I did not delete entire directory, just specific files I've named
/Applications/World of Warcraft/...
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Only other thing I did was give myself R/W permissions to some folders that were locked to me, for the purpose of checking their size. Some of these included the Spotlight directory and other system folders. But once again, no modifications done here except the permissions.
Shortly after strange things began happening. My Google Chrome Window turned to a white screen. I could press back, forward, refresh, but nothing appeared in the window. I closed Chrome. I started Itunes and it failed to open. I tried to open it again, same result: crashed, critical error, etc. I didn't pay much attention to the error message unfortunately. I decided to do a quick reboot...well my OS never booted back up.
It got stuck on the grey screen with the Apple logo with the little circle underneath it, thinking. And it just sits there, for about two minutes... and then screen flashes black and it restarts itself. Apple chord sound plays, and back to the grey screen with Apple logo and circle. For two minutes, then black again, Apple chord, etc. etc. etc.
The process continues to repeat by itself. I let the process run for almost an hour before I gave up on it fixing itself.
System Specs:
2007 Imac, OSX 10.5.8, 20inch, 2.4ghz core 2 duo, 1gb ram, 250gb hd
I have the Install DVD and system reads it fine.
Since then I've been scouring these forums and others, trying most solutions I've found, such as:
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Resetting PRAM (held for 4 dings)
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Target disk mode with another Mac (Don't have access to one unless I go way out of my way)
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OR
whatever lines come immediately after these.
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duringnieux pierre wrote:
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/Applications/Extras/BlastApp.app
I have many many GB worth of other apps I'd love to be able to load back up, rather than spend hours re-installing them.
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