External Hard Disk Drive: The Best Backup Medium

By: Anonymous Coward

Want to backup quickly and easily? Backup to external hard disk
drives.

Backup to external hard disk drives easily, securely and
efficiently.

As a hard disk is the fastest and largest backup medium you can
get, you may want to backup all your important files to an
external hard drive. You can backup literally everything: your
Outlook and Outlook Express files, your bookmarks, your
favourite save games, and of course, your important work
documents, photos, images and maybe even videos.

As an external HDD is detatched from your system and, combined
with a strong encryption algorithm, like blowfish or 3DES, you
can get maximum security. Just make sure you actually remember
the encryption password. You can also store your external hard
disk offsite (at a friend's house, a paid locker or specialized
fire-proof storage place) in case your information is very
important (well, generally, anyone can do that and it can't hurt
for sure).

As external hard disk drives have the cheapest storage volume
(about 200Gb for $150?) and you can reuse them for several
years, you may as well get the cheapest backup medium at your
disposal. When using a backup schedule, you can simply backup
the backup program run when you are absent (or maybe even at
night) to backup everything without supervision. If you need two
or more backup disks, you may as well get another external HDD.

Also, now there are quite large mobile hard drives, which can
admit all the necessary data: work documents, e-mail files, etc.
You can also carry your data anywhere you want and feel safe,
because some external hard disks are now hard to break by
dropping.

So, go with external HDD and backup as fast as you want, as much
as you want, secure your important data, get the cheapest
backups and even be able to carry your backups anywhere you
want.

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