Two months ago, one of my hard drives with over 1TB of data crashed. Taking with it, 5 years worth of picture memories of my daughter and all other pictures I had taken during the last 5 years.

The drive would not connect at all. Upon taking it to data recovery specialists, the final cost of data recovery was one thousand dollars :(

Not a pleasant amount of money to have to cough up, but I did anyways because the memories stored in the pictures are too valuable to compare with the price.

But the lesson was learnt. You need to find a good solution to back up your data.

For temporary purpose I purchased a 2TB USB Western Digital Passport Drive for $119.99 that is working beautifully to back up my important files, and also computer files in case something needs to be restored at some point.

Today I saw this deal from a website that offers lifetime backup for unlimited number of computers with unlimited space for $99.99. I could not pass up this offer and just purchased it. It is a one time payment and all your files will now be backed up online so you won't even have to worry about having USB drives. You can get the deal here http://www.drivepop.com/dealnews/  This deal is only temporary, normally they have a per month pricing, so if you plan to get it, do get it soon!

I will use the USB Drive simply as extra space for anything I might need!

Safe Computing!