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I need your suggestions.

I keep a lot of my older data on two external drives: a Seagate 250
GB hard drive holds all my photos from 2002 forward, music, video, and
other personal files. A 1 TB Western Digital holds all my
business-related items.

Some of this stuff is scattered between my two laptops as well, but mostly not due to space considerations.

This has always worked well for me – until yesterday.

I plugged in my Seagate to grab my holiday playlists only to
discover that there is no data on my Seagate. It’s telling me I need to
reformat my drive – that it’s a blank disc. What? I’ve tried it on
several different computers at this point, both PC and Mac. I’ve
accepted that my data is somehow, magically gone.

Now, my music is backed up on my iPod and my photos since 2005 are
on Flickr. But everything else? Not so much. This has convinced me,
more than anything else, the benefits of also having an off-site
backup. You know, in the Cloud.

I know there are a bunch of companies out there, such as Drop.io. I have around 200 GB of data, and that will only increase. What do you recommend for price, capacity, and ease of use?
Leave your thoughts in the comments. I hope to have found something by
next week, and believe me, I’ll take your suggestions to heart.

Thanks, and happy Thanksgiving!

Photo Credits:
- Lost Data
– King Cloud

One Response so far | Have Your Say!

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   john busteed
   December 1st, 2008 at 3:09 pm #

   I love dropbox but they only offer 50GB. This rules for having data that you need to share between multiple machines.