Originally Posted by violetsfarm
Originally Posted by jeaninmaine
For under 100.00 you can get a terabyte or 2 terabyte external hard drive at either Tiger Direct or Buy.com.
I back up everything on my hard drive that I don't want to lose onto an external drive (or two), that way if I have to change computers I can just plug my external into a laptop or a different PC.
When my computer died the last time, I was using an old 15 gig laptop with a 500gig external plugged into it and everything worked just fine til I could afford to replace my computer.
Thanks for the information. Sounds exactly like what I need, I had no idea these devices existed.
You just have to "remember" to save to the other source. I have a backup hard drive, and a flash drive. I save my Quicken (financial stuff) to both the backup hard drive and the flash drive every time I use it. That way I have 2 backups of the really important stuff. I also copy all my documents and photos to a cd every once in a while to. I don't think you can ever have "too much" backed up.