What is the best type of storage?Burning on Media?External Hard Disk?Flash Drive  

Noted, point taken as I do recommend & sell HP media as well. I had to redownload & burn my antivirus program earlier when I formatted my HDD the 2nd time as the virus had attacked my antivirus programs stored on all my HDD & also backed up ones which I didn't realize at 1st. What a frustration. I contracted it with my pendrive during 1 of the Microsoft workshops, darn. Anyway everything is up & running now for more than a couple of weeks ;)

Virus is really a pain in the neck. Well, good to see that your up and running again.

Thanks. Yeah, they really do damage.

Thanks Zweebs for picking this one out

No probs man!~

I only turn on my external when I want to retrieve stuff or backup stuff ;)

Yup, that's great. I have 1 250GB 3.5" SATA as well. But like I did highlight, all is well until there's virus or the external drive unforseenly goes kaput!~ Haha. Then all the files in there we'll have to kiss them goodbye, sayonara. Other than that, I also do prefer external drives as they can store really a lot ;)

CoolHi 5 bro!~

I wonder if someone even tries to store viruses... if their storage device got infected, wouldn't they lose the viruses they stored as well...?

Just kidding..

HAhahahGood 1!~

Gets me thinking that those who develop anti-virus programs or applications are also the ones who could make them. I mean, you'd know the cure if you know the illness.

Haha, do you not know then how market place operates then? Even if it's not them that's making the viruses, they could just hire anyone to do that. Or just give you Home Free version then when you must renew your license key even though it's "Free", if you're not aware then the virus just comes in & attack or self-destruct / auto detonated kinda thing

Such a conspiracy just to earn out of the consumer's expense..

These crooks should be thrown in jail

That would be a difficult thing to attempt though..

Very true....

Yeah, hahaPC has to be at peak performance all the time!~ If there's too little space, even if you want to do defragment it won't run properly

I agree on the verifying part of data & also storing it properly to prevent scratches Well, online storage sites will expose your important data though Wow, emailing - haha, yeah, only viable for small attachments not the super big ones, haha!~

CoolDifferent tool for different usage / occasion. I do see the practicallity there. Yeah, & like I did mention before, nothing is indestructible or full-proof in this world

Totally agree with you. The only headache when you store in a big external drive is when it's under virus attack or the drive crashes. So I would opt for either CD or DVD depending on data capacity

That's great!~Double backup, very good idea. Haven't come till that part coz kinda busy. Mine is either in the external hdd or DVD, haha

yes, it is better to have a back up just incase our hard drive will crash hehehe... That happened to us once... Lesson learned! Cheers!

Yup, totally agree with that. I had once my hard drive that crashed & I didn't backup the tons of MP3s in there & i was like argghbut it was too late. I had to rip all of them from my CDs again, what a tedious job. Now I've got my MP3s in my current drive, another in an 3.5" SATA external drive & another in a 2.5" external drive. Have some burnt in some DVDs somewhere...hard lesson indeed, haha~!

CoolOnly if it's more data that you need a DVD. Just remember that it's virus free though before burning them on your CD / DVD

Thanks for the suggestion. It would be horrible to boot up and find you had re-infected your computer with a virus.

Well, actually that was what happened when I didn't realize my antivirus .exe file was infected in my thumb drive once & I had to reformat twice in a day