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How not to lose family photos and videos in the next 10 years.

1 pointsby royosheroveover 11 years ago

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pwgover 11 years ago
&gt; Total cost for managing all my files ever: $65-$75 a month.<p>Lowest Newegg price for 1T external USB hd (2014-01-28): 69.99.<p>Buy one 1T USB drive from Newegg every 2 months (half the cost of $75&#x2F;month).<p>Backup Windows 1T drive to each in turn.<p>After 1 year, have seven redundant copies of the data (1T drive in Windows machine, plus six redundant external HD copies, if each drive is refreshed every 2 months to include the full dataset at that time).<p>Half the cost per month (69.99&#x2F;2 months vs. 75&#x2F;month).