What storage device do you use for your computer?

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United States
January 6, 2008 10:29pm CST
For years in computer technology it has been narrowed down to find ways to backup your files, important data, MP3's, pictures and other important information found on your computer. Of course back then floppy disks was a big factor of data recovery and backing up information, but it was a downfall that it only backed up only 1.44MB of information. In this day and age we have USB devices such as Pen Drives, external hard drives and even memory cards of all types. What do you use and what do you find more convenient when backing up your computer files?
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@xalimx (54)
• Malaysia
15 May 08
500gb as secondary hdd and 80gb for main hdd. I'm looking for new hdd (320 or 500gb).
@youless (112493)
• Guangzhou, China
14 May 08
I don't think there is a way that can be 100% safe to store the important data. Usually I keep my important data and files in the hard disk. And then I will burn it to DVD. If possible, I will also store it online. I love China
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
7 Jan 08
I use USB flash drives to store my files. They are easier to transport, can't get scratced like cd's can, have more memory space and you can use a passcode to make them private.
@Harley009 (1416)
• India
7 Jan 08
* 80 GB HDD SATA * 80 GB Portable HDD * 4 GB Flash Drive * CDs & DVDs * I use Floppy disks, but only for system trouble shooting.. and to copy file to older computers if needed.
@markb658 (40)
• Ireland
8 Jan 08
I have a portable USB Hard drive (80GB) Which i just use for music, And a few 1GB Pen drives i use for backup, and storing files for work in college and that.!
• India
14 May 08
i use harddreve and pendrive for storage of data
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
7 Jan 08
I have so many floppy discs from when I first fired up but today I have a portable little hard drive I only use to store very important things and i also back up on DVD's and the things I only store on DVD's I do the impotant things twice, anything can happen to any type of backup you do...
@rovian (1924)
• United States
7 Jan 08
What I use that most is a Thumb Drive/Flash Drive/ or whatever other name it also has. I have CD's and I received an external hard drive from my college but I cannot use it since it is for firewire which my computer doesn't have.