How to Backup your important Data

Your have stored all your music, pictures and everything computer's hard drive you've worked on for the past few years. What would you do if your hard drive crashed? Let’s explore how you can backup your date safely.
Which External Hard drive is good?

One option is copy your important stuffs to an external hard drive. These you can easily find local retail stores not only the GB’s you can even go up to TB’s as you want. Through USB port connection you can explore without requiring any drivers software. As you’re thinking about the capacities in GB or TB you have to think very important factor security on the hard drive device. Let’s think it’s gone on to someone’s hand how secrecy important on your data would and if it fell it down and drives got crashed who will recover it for you. Some of my friends are talking about this kind of stories when the drive got crashed by fallen down. When you are searching an external hard drive for backup purposes look for shockproof with encrypted protected one.


Why CDs DVD’s or Flash Memories,

If you want you can backup to CD, DVD or Flash memories there is not wrong on that. But major disadvantage is with their capacities better only for small data backups. Rewriting on RW or closed session adding to disk can make inconsistent of your existing data on the disks. Providing the security will be issue if you’re expecting security on your data if so you have to store in a secure place securely.

Today most of the flash memories come with encrypted technology as you can find it up to several GB’s capacity would enough if it sufficient for you. As it using a chip memory it may compatible with small kind of shocks but it has life time we can’t rely on that for longer time. Comparatively cost, easy caring, several GB’s capacity good enough for short time purposes as long as you have alternative copy exist somewhere else and it will work fine.


Cloud storage

Backing data up online to virtual location is more popular way today. Cloud storage web sites are offering some few gigabytes as free and if you need more you can purchase it from them. But you have to consider how you can put most sensitive data online no matter how secure, is susceptible to hackers and security breaches.

If you use removable media, you have to lock your backups in a fire proof safe or safety deposit box to protect against the natural disasters as it important to you.