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I'm surprised he chose a 1TB drive for backup over a year of online backup - a physical drive fails a lot more easily than a company whose sole purpose is backing up your data, and if he/she already has a computer that has a disk of a size close to 1TB, the drive is going to fill with backups.

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Good suggestion! I'm surprised I forgot to write CrashPlan pro. Though I did have Dropbox on there, so I suppose that counts for a bit. I added CrashPlan pro to the $25-50 section.

For me, I will use a second 1tb drive as a raid 1 drive mirrored to my main drive, to prevent against drive failure. The really important stuff on there is saved in Dropbox anyway.

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