Looking for a method other than portable EHDs to backing up photos and videos from iPhoto.

(MacBook Pro 15in Mid-2009, iPhoto '11)
I currently have my iPhoto library (approx 250GB and growing) backed up to 2 1TB external hard drives. I also have my entire photo library on Shutterfly. My computer backs up to CrashPlan regularly, but I need to delete the original library from my computer to free up space and the library will no longer be in storage there. Therefore my library would be stored on 1 EHD and backed up on 1 more EHD that is exactly the same.
I would like to have all of it backed up 3 times, so the photos are taken care of but I am in a quandary on what I should do about my videos. I would like to have an alternate method such as USB or SD card (worried that the EHDs will conk out or I will drop one), but I don't know if this is realistic or not (I realize that I would need multiple USBs or SD cards to back up this size of library). Flickr doesn't allow videos longer than 1:30 in length, and iPhoto keeps crashing on me when I try to upload videos to Flickr in any case.
Is using a USB drive realistic? Is using an SD card even possible?
Thanks for your advice!

LarryHN, you said "YOu need one more trifitional hardvdrive". Do you mean I need one more external hard drive? Right now I have 2 1TB Other World Computing Mercury Elite Pros. I am open to buying one more external drive but I was thinking it should be a different kind/brand in case the ones I have turn into duds for some reason.
Thank you for your point about Crash Plan. In any case it will be a moot point once I delete the library from my computer so I wasn't figuring that into my backup scenario.
Please forgive me for my lack of education on this, but why won't USB thumb drive or SD card work? Can't I split the photos and videos up among several memory sticks?

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