I already have an external HD from Best Buy with all of the information that I wanted it to have.
You can use this HDD to also have Macrium put its image backup of your PC onto it.
I assume your info/data will change over time so you can have Macrium scheduled to run each night or perhaps weekly and have image of your entire system....which includes your data files.
Besides, I don't have any CDs to burn the size of information you are more than likely talking about.
The recovery CD Macrium generates is very small....just one CD burned once.
What is on this CD is the Macrium recovery environment if you need to restore the image you put on the external HDD as backup.
Just a thought........do some reading on it if you have interest......just thought I'd mention.
