Are you one of the millions overlooking the importance of internet storage and do you risk losing important files and photos should the unthinkable (fire, computer failure, etc.) happen? Here are some reasons as to why you should consider getting some form of online backup:

Computers are increasingly becoming a very integral part of our lives. With the amount of valuable information stored in them going up everyday, it becomes important to have a good back up plan in place.

A USB Flash Drive or USB Drive is a flash memory data storage device combined with a USB interface. They have, in a way, replaced the floppy diskette. Their storage capacity is very high with some drives going up to 256 GB storage.

More and more of the world is going online. Shops, businesses and lots of other things are all building websites to help promote and advertise their businesses. But when you have your whole business advertised online it makes sense to protect that asset by performing an online data backup.

Compact Flash cards are used mostly by photographers for storing their digital images. It is needless to say that the files stored thereon are precious, and need to be handled carefully. The card is formatted to enable its usage.

Almost everybody is using digital cameras or phone cameras to take photographs and create priceless digital photo memories. However, do you back-up? I wanted to outline some approaches for backing up digital photos and what to do if you were not able to back-up.

Have you ever got into a situation where you thought your hard drive was corrupted but there was actually data still on there you could get off? Many people are unaware of the fact they can still access their data with many 3rd party tools on the market.

What would the effects be after a sudden loss of power? Business would nearly grind to a halt depending on how well companies had planned for such an eventuality.

Imagine a situation where a person using a laptop with Windows XP for the past many years faces a serious technical problem and the laptop corrupts suddenly. If he had been using the Windows backup utility to save his data in .bkf files, then the question that would haunt him now would be – How to extract his BKF data from the corrupted laptop?

I could easily fill this page with expletives that have been used when an innocent hard disk gives up the ghost, goes belly up and journeys skyward to hard disk heaven. These words are usually louder and accompanied by banging and (often) whimpering when that crucial backup that was promised was ignored in favour of getting stuff done.

Consumer electronics are on the move as holiday shopping is in full swing. The consumer electronic industry is a multi trillion dollar business and consumer demand for the latest and greatest never wanes. Electronic appliances can range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and are not easily replaced after accidents or household disasters.

Are you a small business owner? Do you ever take the time to backup your companies data? If you do, do you ensure that the data is safe and that it will work if and when you need it? Here are a few tips to help you to safe guard your hard earned company data.