I’m confused. Why not just use an external hard drive?
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why would an individual use it?
Clickfree has some really nice products for back-up. Easy to use.
A USB stick flash drive costs so little. Why would anyone subscribe to a service with a monthly charge to back up files?
And with Carbonite canceling its ads on Rush, why would anyone subscribe to Carbonite?
If you subscribe to them, get your data back and then dump Carbonite? Take out this one company and it will have a ripple effect.
We have almost nothing on our computer. Husband backs up his Quicken on CD’s. I mostly use the computer for news & such since we don’t have tv.
We used Carbonite when we upgraded to Windows 7.
We’re on satelite.
It took days to backup and restore. We lost stuff. I had to do a lot of reinstalling. What a mess! I’ve wondered how it works for people who have a lot of important stuff to backup!
We going to an external hard drive.
“I’m confused. Why not just use an external hard drive?”
No need to be confused. That’s the only smart thing to do, at least when you consider that both Carbonite and Mozy (and perhaps the others as far as I know) install software that so deeply penetrates the Windows file management subsystems that your PC performance pretty much drops dead. I don’t know how many times I’ve “fixed” badly performing PCs by just removing either one.
Also, Carbonite has (or at least used too) a policy that you can only restore your data to the PC it originally came from so people wouldn’t use it like a crappy version of Dropbox. So basically, you’d be scwewed if your PC dropped dead and you wanted your Carbonite data backup back.
It was Justcloud for me after I cancelled Carbonite this weekend. I use Time Machine and Time Capsule on my Mac, but I do want external storage should the local disks fail.
I use an external hard drive on my desktop, and have no need to use a service like Carbonite. I don't keep anything on my laptop, desktop computer or external drive that I couldn't live without. All my treasured photos, system backups, important documents, passwords, etc., are already backed up on DVD and I still have the memory cards my photos were originally stored on, so losing a hard drive, other than an inconvenience, wouldn't be a big deal. I have Macs. My desktop has Time Machine, which automatically updates everything on the external hard drive every hour. If I had to rely on my computers for my livelihood, I might feel differently, but since I'm retired, my computers are used for my own personal enjoyment.