My son recently blogged about “Tech on the cheap and a plea for computer sanity...” on his blog Pearls of Wisdom. In this blog he refers to my hunter mentality when it comes to finding a good deal. I loath spending money on products that either don’t work or don’t fulfill my expectations.
I have purchased several external hard drives and have used them for backing up my desktop computer. I have limited success in keeping a continual backup going of my computer system as the external hard drives seem to fail on a regular basis. My latest 1 TB external drive had started failing and I really did not want to replace it. I had heard several times about Carbonite but had not really followed up on it because I did not want to spend MORE #008000;">money on technology.
Well my timing worked out perfectly because I was able to get a year with the company for $35. I get unlimited space (I used about 60 GB currently) and the files are securely stored on their server and can be accessed from any computer. I like the idea that my files are safe off-site and that it runs in the background constantly.
Now I plan on continuing my manual backups and will backup to my external hard drive which I have now repaired. I always, always, always recommend that you keep multiple types of backup of your data. You can never be too careful!
