I am looking for your feedback here….

My love of photography has grown exponentially over the last few years, and with it so has the size of my hard drives and backup storage drives. And that is fine for when I am here at home, processing them, editing them, posting them to blogs, and sending them off to people.

But what to do when on the road? When I get excited about something I can easily fill up 20GB within a few hours of shooting. So if I plan to go away for a week at a time.. how do a handle all of that data? Where do I put it all so I can keep shooting?

A few obvious options pop out

• Bring along the large 17″ laptop I have and an external USB harddrive to move all the files to
  • Pros: No Cost – I already own both.
  • Cons: Big, Heavy, Carrying much more than what is needed. Not a good solution for during the day downloads… you are gonna leave this in your room all day.
  
  
• Purchase a netbook with a very large harddrive to move the photos to
  • Pros: Small, Light, full laptop capabilities including photo editing, or blogging if net access is available
  • Cons: Netbooks with a big enough harddrive are more expensive. Netbooks are more fragile so you run a larger risk of losing your data to corruption
  
  
• Purchase a netbook and use a USB hard drive
  • Pros: Small, Light, Cheap, already have the USB, full laptop capabilities including photo editing, or blogging if net access is available
  • Cons: USB is separate thing to carry around.. find in hotel room, but not great if out and about during the day.
  
  
• Purchase a “image tank” whose purpose is to download a CF card quickly for backup… such as a Wolverine PicPac 320GB or a HyperDrive COLORSPACE 320GB or an Epson P-7000.
  • Pros: Super Small, Light, designed to do just this thing. No adapters necessary, Carry with you everywhere for never running out of space
  • Cons: Most costly option, no editing capabilities. Only some have screens to even show off your photos before you get home
  
  

Tough Decision I have here…
Anyone have any experience with any of these options?
Taken a trip where you want to bring the minimal? Where you have no plans for email or internet use while you are gone… just want to take pictures and enjoy the trip?
What would you recommend????