I have a 2 Terabyte hard drive at work that my Macbook Pro backs up to every day, but honestly, I'm even a little wary about just having that. A friend of mine put all of his movies, TV shows, and other large files on one of his external hard drives, only to have it crash and lose over 2 TB of data! Bummer. According to some stats I've seen floating around the internet, it seems around 50% of people have had a hard drive fail at one time or another. I know it's happened in our family!
As a result, I spent some time poking around various websites yesterday looking for some FREE online backup services. I've used Mozy.com in the past, which is great, but they only offer 2 GB backup space for free. The plus side is that they offer unlimited storage for only $5/month, which is ridiculously cheap, but for now, I am just looking for a way to back up the really critical stuff I have.
I finally decided on iDrive (www.idrive.com). They also offer 2 GB of storage for free, but if you let them send one referral email to each contact in your address book, you get an additional 10 GB! Sweet! I just used another Gmail account I had and removed all the contacts that I knew wouldn't be interested, and sent off a referral. (Note: you have to have at least 5 contacts).
iDrive works on Mac or PC and automatically backs up whatever files you want, whenever you want. Lots of great options and pretty smooth integration make it a winner for me!
So if you've got a few minutes, I strongly recommend getting this set up and get your important files backed up online! One less thing to worry about. ;)
MS
Try out Glide as well, it's a webOS that I used to backup all of my music. I think it gives you 25 GB for free or something like that.
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