21st August 2006

Cheapest Remote Backup

posted in Finance, General, Money, Technology |

I’ve had yet another hard drive crash this summer. Seems that I go through a HDD crash every year.

I do backup to DVDs as well as an external hard drive. Still I lose files between backups and crashes. And I waste valuable time restoring files.

Intially, I have always looked into remote backup but it was too expensive, either by monthly charge or per GB.

How often do you back up your PC? Probably not often enough and it only takes one disaster, and then it’s bye bye PC! Try putting a price on lost time fixing or restoring the files, or transfering files to a new Hard Drive.

Finally there’s a service that’s cheap, unlimited storage space and “idiot-proof”!

First, I do my research using google and blogs. Most said “thumbs up”!

Secondly, I took advantage of their 14 days trial period to try it out. It had no problem backing up 30GB from my PC!

Verdict? One day before expiration, I whipped out my credit card and purchase an annual subscription.

Do yourself a favor. Get Carbonite and backup your PC NOW. You’ll be glad you did that.

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  1. 1 On October 12th, 2006, Richard Roehm said:

    This protest is, of course, the key event in the evolutionary proccess we’re seeing in the deaf community.

    The protesters are all about the old deaf guards who dont believe in the re-intergration of deaf people back into the hearing society.

    The deaf communities are facing major evolutionary changes in the near future which enable them to mainstream and re-integrate back into the hearing society. They are cochlear implants and recently, stem cells, which are promising to be part of the final solutions to addressing deafness. The medical marvels have enabled deaf people to function almost like hearing people. This has created a new deaf society in the past decade and this new deaf society has been slowly taking over Gallaudet University operations.

    The protests youre seeing is the old deaf guard’s last stand against the changes in the future of deaf society, against the new deaf society taking over Gallaudet University.

    Jane’s leadership has the support of the new deaf society and is best one to lead the new deaf society which comprises 80 percent of the students at Gallaudet into the future.

    The protesters are about the past deaf society, about the old deaf guards who have become the scourge of the deaf communities.

    They have to give it up because they cant beat the evolutionary proccess the deaf society is facing.

    Richard Roehm
    Chief Executive Officer
    Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center