Hi Nick, You hit it on the head. If something goes wrong mechanically to the hard drive it does not make any difference which dive you are backed up on. The data is lost!!

If a person is luckey to have two computers they can be networked and then Ghost or a replicator to save the info. Or add a second HDD to the first computer previously mentioned.

Burning to a CD as said before is good also. There are other ways and more expensive ways also to accomplish the same thing.