Computers can be a great friend to us, yes, but when they fail, they can be one of our most hated posessions. Why? Well, imagine you just finished typing up every single final essay for your senior year, save them, go to print them the next day, and the computer’s dead! You should have backed them up to iDrive. Idrive is a website that offers you 2 gigabytes of safe, online data storage for free. All you need to do is create a free account at their website, iDrive.com, download the application (for Windows or Mac) and start backing up your files. If you want more space, there is the option to upgrade to a paid account.

Also try:

Mozy Home Backup – also free, 2GB of storage, sign up here.

ADrive – free plan offers 50GB of space, supports FTP transfers…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 7:30 am EST and is filed under Tech Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.