I was asked the other day about how I backup my data and was thinking how my biggest storage requirements (as in big files not biggest requirements) are around videos. The thing about funny videos is that you can find a lot of them online, but I like to keep my personal ones stored at a higher quality, so have to store them myself.
While looking around I came across an external 250Gb drive that’s currently on sale at buy.com. It looks like a great little gadget that I can easily carry around; and it looks really snazzy (does anyone use that word any more?). It’s one of the smaller type of disks (2.5″) that don’t require an additional power adapter but draw their power directly from your USB port. It’s small enough to fit in your pocket and even lets you encrypt the data on the drive so if someone nicks it for you they don’t have all your information.
I can’t stress how important backups can be (and that’s no joke). There’s nothing worse then trying to explain to someone who has lost their data that there’s nothing they can do about it, just start collecting information again. Don’t forget how some data can be priceless .. you know .. people falling off chairs, buckets of water falling on their head …