External hard drives these days are extremely cheap. I picked up 320 gb western digital the other day for 80 bucks at staples for this exact purpose of backing up my files in case anything ever failed... I'll try to hook it up every month or so and synchronize it. I'm most worried about the pictures, its hard to go on vacations or special occasions again to get the pictures.. (vacation time and money, not that I don't want to
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