Hard Drive 101: Hard Drives WILL crash, your data is in DANGER. It’s smart to backup your data before it crashes.
We are going to see few options to backup your data,
1. External Hard drives:
It’s not really smart to back on the same drive which you are planning to backup. Here are some good External Hard drive backup solutions:
*Clickfree portable backup: Offers easy automatic backup
Hard drive enclosures: If you have an old external hard drive, you can use an enclosure and use it as a backup disk.
Drobo offers a solution to rack up multiple spare hard drives in RAID. This redundancy backs up your data when your hard drive and a backup hard drive crashes.
Software's to backup:
Time Machine: Mac users can use this neat inbuilt tool.
*Cobian Backup is an automated backup program for Windows users.
*Windows users can also use the Build-in Vista backup utility.
2. Network attached storage
Network attached storages are large hard drives usually attached to a router where multiple computers can back up to.
Time Capsule, is the wireless network-attached storage for Mac users
Addonics NAS adapter, can convert any USB external hard drive to a network drive.
Drobo Droboshare, is another alternative for NAS
*Synology Diskstation, you can put your hard drive in it and it becomes a NAS. It also has the capability to communicate with XBOX 360 and PS3.
3. Online backup
This is the easiest option if you have the network capability.
Mobile me, is available for Mac users, offers 60 GB of network storage, but it’s kind of expensive.
*Carbonite, offers simple online backup solutions, $49 per year.
Drop box, available at box.net offers files backup.
Microsoft Mesh, a free service, still available as Beta service offers 5 GB can sync up several computers.
Skydrive offers 25 GB of free service from Microsoft, works with Mac too, uses Active sync to backup your data.
*Jungle disk is the favorite choice for most uesrs, offers $15c per GB with no monthly fee.
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