Thanks again for the info...appreciate the comments about the additional cost of "mac only" hard drive

I'm just wondering what the benefits of doing both TM and CCC? If I understand things correctly, with just TM backups, if my hard drive fails I'd have to put in a new hard drive into my MBP, reinstall the OS and then use TM to restore all my data.

Is the primary benefit of CCC or SuperDuper that it eliminates the need to do a fresh OS install with a new hard drive? (ie. put in new hard drive to my MBP and simply use CCC or SuperDuper to reinstall a clone of my old hard drive)?

Would that best explain the sole benefit of CCC / SuperDuper over TM...the time savings of having to reinstall the OS again?

Thanks.