Best way to store important items on a PC?

esuhl

Laptop or not, I can't see why you'd want to access an electronic copy of your birth certificate during a power cut. How many minutes a year do you spend without mains power? Approximately zero?

Anyway, how are you going to access the files if your laptop battery fails? What if you need to access the files underwater? :-P

Gratis

esuhl wrote: »

Laptop or not, I can't see why you'd want to access an electronic copy of your birth certificate during a power cut. How many minutes a year do you spend without mains power? Approximately zero?

Anyway, how are you going to access the files if your laptop battery fails? What if you need to access the files underwater? :-P

Thanks for taking what I posted in good humour.

Asking someone how many minutes a year they spend without mains power is like asking someone how long a piece of string is.

It all depends on where you live, where you travel to and how reliable the local electricity supply is.

What I do know is that I want to avoid any hard drive having its power supply cut off when it's writing files (including backup files in the background and especially when it's synching them).

How do I access my files if my laptop battery fails? I put in a spare, charged battery and re-charge the other one off the UPS, silly.

If the files and the laptop end up underwater, that's the time to retrieve the insurance documents from Wuala, Sugarsync or Box. Simples.

By the way, we also have a petrol-powered generator but I've not yet got around to fitting it with water-wings. Probably because my own home is on a hill, overlooking the Mediterranean.