Back it Up: the Best Way to Save Your Computer`s Information

Anyone who has ever experienced a computer crash has been through a full gamut of emotions: anger, fear, worry…and finally, grief when something gets lost. Work, games, pictures, music, movies - all those things you’ve got on your computer could all be gone in one single crash. Don’t trust these mercurial machines we call computers. If you want to keep it, you’d better back it up!


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This article is a bit old and incomplete, in my opinion.

Mind you, I'm all in favour of telling people to back up their data, in the words of Dan: `Data you haven't backed up is data you don't want'.

But I think that mentioning ZIP and even floppy drives while ignoring tape drives and external hard-drives is a bit stupid. ZIP and floppy have insanely high costs per megabyte compared to the latter two, and haven't been viable backup-strategies for several years. Especially since neither medium has much longevity.

And then there's the fact that the author completely forgot to mention the concept of `off-site backups', the most important part of any backup strategy.

As said, good initiative, but seems to be written several years ago.

CD's? honestly? why not use dvds instead? did the article even mention dvds?

you're right itsacon, this article is a joke.

EDIT: oh yeah, the pics were terrible too. seemed like they were from the 90's or something.

I havent used floppy disks in years and even then they were unreliable and @ 1.44mb far too small for any real use.