| Tired of switching CD/DVD discs while backing up? | | | | of data, which may not be convenient. Nor is storing |
| Flash USB drives to the rescue! | | | | multiple CDs of your backup copy. |
| If you already backup often, you are doing the most | | | | The same can be said about backing up to DVD. Of |
| you can to secure your files against accidental file | | | | course, a DVD admits from 4.7Gb to about 18.6Gb of |
| deletion and recovery, file damage and what not. | | | | data, but is it really convenient backing up to DVD? |
| Also, you may be considering making your backups | | | | An external hard disk drive or a flash USB drive will |
| as easy and painless as possible. So what may be a | | | | be speedier, more reliable and easier overall. |
| remedy to this issue? | | | | Here is when a flash USB drive comes handy. It not |
| Naturally, you need to consider several backup media | | | | only allows faster data copying than CD or DVD, but |
| and select the one suitting your needs and | | | | can also admit from 256Mb to 4Gb of data (or |
| requirements. Among all, CD, DVD and flash USB | | | | maybe more). Moreover, you can take the USB drive |
| drives are considered. | | | | with you anywhere you go and transfer the data |
| You may as well use CD to backup, but you will | | | | between distant computers without resolving to FTP |
| either need to dump CD-R discs often, or insert a | | | | backup. Of course, one of the drawbacks of a flash |
| CD-/+RW discs often to make another backup. | | | | USB backup is that the drive is only limited to about |
| Someone else can also misplace your backup CD disc | | | | 100 000 writings, while another slight disadvantage |
| or overwrite your backup data with other | | | | (or an advantage, if you put it nicely) is that the |
| information. Moreover, a CD only admits about 700Mb | | | | device is so small you can easily misplace it. |