Backup your data simply
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Once things can go wrong. Even your PC or laptop, where are stored your personal data. No matter that it is a hard-drive, CD, DVD or an USB stick, but in case of failure there is a high probability of losing some data. You always need a backup!
- Optical media - CD,DVD or BlueRay disc. These discs lifetime is between 20 and 100 years. Their advantage is they are relatively inexpensive. The disadvantage is storing the huge amount of discs.
- Magnetic disks - hard disk. Due to their high capacity, they are the best solutions for backup.
- Flash disks - USB stick, memory card. Due to their vulnerability and tendency to corruption, they are not suitable for long-term data storage. Do not store any important data on these disk for a long time.
The options are:
You will feel safe, when you got two copies of your archived data, because any device can get malfunctioned at any time.