Sunday, February 03, 2008

External Storage: Go Big or Don’t Bother!

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Sometimes it’s hard to believe, but you tend to collect a lot of files. A few documents here, a couple of videos there, and some photos and music all over the place. Before you know it, you have gigabytes and gigabytes of content. And if you have a family that uses computers, the number of files just increases.

But, what happens if your hard drive decides to pack it in one day? Like most people, you probably don’t back up your files as often as you should. And if you don’t, you stand to lose a lot of data should your hard drive fail. Much of that information won’t be easily replaced either. There are a number of ways in which you can back up your information. You can burn it to a CD or a DVD. You can dump it on to a USB flash drive. Or, you can use an online storage service like Box.net or Amazon S3. All of these solutions are good, but they’re limited by the amount of data that they can store.

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