Are you a person who keep all important data from your computer on CD?

If you store in email box...you are just storing them on a harddrive somewhere outthere on an actual server with an actual. This is not the case as i undersand it (never runnung a actual email server but i have runned a acctualserver. Your files can be on lets say two harddrives. So if one those harddrives crashes u loose the information on both. (but i actually don´t know anything about running a emailserver but i can´t see it running anyother way) Also you should always store you personal information like creditcard/banknumbers/personal passwords on something that you can hold in your hand. Your personal information gets "hacked"/stolen usually from somewhere else than the playes you acctually enter your cc.nr password and what not. As your common bank reliable webshops has exteme security for this mattter alone. If i even wanted to or knew how...Id go after the webserver as it´s the least "safe" of the Webserver/Harddrive/USB combinations. Id say if your personal information is on the email box. move to USB.CD.Diskette.Paper something that can be unplugged. Seeing that you already have a USB move it them...BUT DON´T do this if you take the USBstick with out on the town as it´s unsually totally unprotected by itself. (even if some usual cryptation its not any much safer if the person finding it knows anything about this) As you say you bought a seagate USB (I asume that its a harddrive) Basicly for anyking of USBdevice its "protected" by the protection of the thing you are plugging it in to. And I suggest moving all you information to the USB harddrive becouse it´s the "safest" but also the fastest way to store your files in your particular situation. But as I understand you have antivirus+firewall from kaspersky just plug it in it will be as "safe" as your hardrive running windows on it...