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Backup drives: essential but underused.(COMPUTER SECURITY)(Buyers guide)

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| September 01, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Home computers hold a lot we care about, from pictures to music to letters. Yet most of us are surprisingly cavalier about copying that often-irreplaceable material to another location for safekeeping. One recent survey found that fewer than half of us ever do so.

With the cost of storage dropping, there's really no excuse not to back up your computer. For most people, the best backup location is a computer peripheral known as an external hard drive. High in capacity and convenience, this device allows you to easily back up new content immediately. As our Ratings show, these days a worthy hard drive can cost as little as $200 or so and need take up no more space ...

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