> What's the cheapest and most effective way to backup your data? I have a CD
> burner, but that's not really enough when you've got 200 GB of stuff. Would be
> a hella lot of CDs to burn. DVD drives and blanks are still pretty expensive.
> Is there a better, cheaper way?

DVD drives only cost $60 now-a-days, and DVDRs are cheaper than CDRs (in the US anyway).

A pack of 100 good CDRs (Taiyo Yuden) is $28-$30. So 28c to 30c per CDR.
A pack of 100 good DVDRs (Ritek G04) is $50, so 50c per DVDR.

However, since a DVDR holds more than 6 CDRs worth of data, it would cost $1.68 (28c * 6) worth of CDRs to hold what one 50c DVDR will hold.