How Do I Back Up My Stuff?

The old way of backing things up by a floppy disk is no more. With files the size that they are today the old floppy cannot handle the files anymore. So your thinking "What are my options?". There are many different ways you can back things up nowadays without using a bunch of floppy disks. I will explain the pro's and con's of each.

1. USB Flash Drive (Also known as a junk/jump drive). This is about the size of your finger and can be easily written to and stuff deleted from it. If you buy one I recommend getting a 1GB or bigger drive so you can fit more stuff on it. The only cons to this is it does not work on older computers without USB ports and it can get expensive the higher the size.

2. CD backup if you have a CD Burner installed on your computer. This can be another way of backing things up. Not just used for burning music. Blank CD's are very cheap. They only hold 700MB of information. If you do not store them properly they will get scratched and become useless.

3. DVD backup if you have a DVD burner installed on your computer. These store much more then a CD, 4.4GB (~6 CD's) even though they say 4.7GB on them so the labels are misleading. Also very cheap like the CD's. Just like the CD's though they scratch easily so make sure they are stored properly.

4. External Hard Drives. These things can store just about anything depending on the size. The only drawbacks are that they are expensive and they take up alot of desk space.

After using a medium for backing things up for a year replace that medium since things do wear out, even CDs and DVDs.