Gadgets, gizmos, and tools to help make you more productive in business

In today's world there are many different ways to backup your data.  You can have it remotely backed up by a third party company on a regular basis.  You can burn DVD's or CD's on a monthly basis. You can even upload your "Home Directory" on your Mac to your ".Mac" account with Apple.

Then again you could also invest in a Maxtor One-Touch backup drive.  These drives are USB 2.0 based and hold as much memory as you need them to.  Most stores that sell any kind of computer products will sell backup drives that are USB or Firewire compatible.

Office Depot has this Maxtor® OneTouch™ III 200GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive.  This drive is 200GB, which, unless you have bought the latest and greatest hard drive, 200 GB should be enough to backup up everything.

Personally I use my backup drive for more than just backup.  I have mine connected to a server and use it for network storage as well.

Since I want to have extra room on my USB hard drive I only back up my documents and settings (easy to do with a Apple PowerBook G4).  I backup once per day and have had to use that backup multiple times.

If you have documents, settings, programs, files, and anything else on your computer that is crucial to your business, don't trust your internal hard drive alone.  Then tend to fail, then data recovery gets expensive.

An external hard drive can save you thousands of dollars if you end up needing a data recovery service!