HOWTO… Back up files to an external disc drive
Small is beautiful. There’s a lot of truth in that saying, but small can also be inconvenient and, where laptops are concerned, ‘small’ can mean an absence of ports and no disc drive.
You might argue that drives are no longer necessary when many of us stream films and download software, but not everybody’s broadband is fast or reliable enough to do this, and some who do enjoy decent broadband speeds may be on a capped contract that limits the amount of data they can download.
Disc drives aren’t just used for playing content either. With a DVD writer, you can reliably back up 650MB to a CD and 4.7GB to a DVD. That might not sound like much when you could pick up a 128GB USB stick, like the SanDisk Ultra Fit for £15 (www.snipca.com/40592), but price and capacity aren’t everything.
You should also consider convenience. USB sticks are great for backing up data that changes often – like folders
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