I use All-Way sync. Every machine I build has 2 hard drives in it, not in a RAID. The second drive is only used for backup. The sync app moves data from my important directories every night to the second drive, and every once in a while when I feel like it's needed they also sync across to another machines backup drive in the house. I also keep a drive at a friends house for my really important data and every once in a while copy to that too. It's fairly simple, it works well, and I haven't lost important data in years.

"Yes, they may take a bit longer (20%?)"

Are you sure? In my case a 10 minute car ride becomes a 40-45 minute commute by walk/bus (each way). I would consider a 350% increase outside the norm, but unless you live exactly on the route that connects you directly to where you are going (which mine does, no connections, and literally stops at the door of my work) then I would guess that generally a bus commute would be twice as long as the car equivalent. I spent spring and summer one year taking the bus, but since I'm in Canada when winter came around the family wasn't having anymore of my forcing them to walk everywhere.

You're just not using them right. CFLs should not be placed in enclosures with no air flow, anywhere that there are extreme temperature fluctuations, anywhere that there are high on/off cycles, anywhere there are below freezing temperatures, anywhere they would be exposed to moisture, or on any circuit that could have power fluctuations. I've had one turned on at the bottom of my basement stairs (because you can't see and there is no switch at the top) since I moved in my house 3 years ago, it's been on the whole time. Yes, this light has been on for more than 20000 hours. Every other one in my house has been replaced with incandescent because they are far cheaper and last about the same amount of time in the enclosure or position that I use them since the CFLs all died in a year or less.

I was thinking about e-mailing them about this yesterday, but then I though that's probably why they are doing all their sample video in bright light. Rather than boost the ISO they can just adjust the shutter speed by one or two stops to compensate for the lower amount of light hitting the sensor. Though what I find funny is that DXOMark rates the 5D Mark II with a dynamic range of 11.9EV (essentially 12), so if they widen the range by 4 stops they claim to have 16EV of range. Yet if they just went with a Nikon D3X they would have 13.7EV range already. Which begs the question, exactly how much range is considered normal dynamic range and how much is considered high dynamic range? If you combine two images from a small sensor camera that can capture 10EV of range, and crank it up to 14, is that HDR? That's pretty much the same range as a single D3X . . . so is the D3X the first consumer HDR single shot camera?

Just use a CRT.