3 partitions wont save you with a hardware-crash. I had 3 seperate harddrives, one of them hardware-crashed... lost 1 year of digital photography!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and had one 1GJazz with minor crash as well... saved most of the imagery... lost about 150Mb. CD/DVD-RW is the way to go I guess, gotta get me one of those DVD-RWs ... mmmmmmmmmm slobber slobber