The weight really isn't bad at all, and the bag is on wheels so it's easy to carry. As for the hard drives, they're what I've accumulated. The two eSATA drives are old laptop hard drives that I put in cases. They're 6 times faster than USB so I can start capturing and editing while I'm on the road. The USB drives are what I usually carry -- one is a backup of my laptop, the other carries most (but not all) of the data stored on my home LAN. The data is available via FTP, but includes databases that I'll need access to.