Sony giga vault is everything you're looking for and shiny

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/...

Here's one you can check out.

http://www.smartdisk.com/Products/Storage%20Products/...

I USE THE SAN DISK MICRO CRUZER . IT IS ONLY 256 BUT IT ALSO CONNECTS TO A SANDISK MP3 COMPANION , SO YOU GET THE SOTRAGE PORTABILITY PLUS A MP3 PLAYER . ALL IN THE PALM OF YOU HAND .

These LaCie drives are pretty nice...

La Cie drives

just use an ipod. 40 gigs and pretty small.

maybe this fits. lighter.smaller. more portable.
if your budget allows an ipod, i say go for it.

http://lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10063

I agree with Pencrush above, the fire wire drives are great to go from office to home and back, with a ton of info, fast and cheap, sure beats CDs of old data.

If you have a good extra internal hard drive, you can get a an aluminum USB2/Firewire hard drive case for cheap that will convert your internal drive that into an external...

I've seen them selling for as cheap as about 20 to 30 dollars Canadian (less than 20 dollars US)... I put a200GB Western Digital drive in a USB2 case that I got for about 20 dollars, and its pretty good moving between on my laptop, the computers at school, and my home desktop...

Here's one site, in Canadian dollars with some pretty good prices on hard drive cases: logic computer house

Has anyone used one of these La Cie drives? I'm was thinking about getting a DVD burner to back up my work, but the USB drives seem to be a better option. Ipod is too expensive and not big enough for my needs. I've got the Cruzer, and its great but obviously way to small.

thanks for the info people. some nice ones there.

bRink. i'll think about that. buying the case and big assed HD separately. works out pretty cheap huh!