Do You Use USB Pen Drives For Back UP?

If you use a USB pen drive for backup, then you had better have a very understanding Boss / Partner.

As you can see, they are somewhat fragile:

At best, they should only be consider as TEMPORARY storage nothing else and most certainly NOT for backup.

Every week, without fail, we get a customer asking us to recover what data we can from their memory stick as it the only copy of their most valuable data or backup or pictures or school work etc etc 

Sometimes we can recover the data from the pen drive, in other cases it's a total loss so please make sure that you have a real backup and multiple copies of your data. We recommend that you keep at least three copies of your data in different locations at all times.

That way you have three chances of recovering your data. Remember its a fact that most people DO NOT have adequate backup

If you need help or advice or a computer backup solution, give us a call or pop in to see us

Bargain USB Drives

Our goal is to deliver the best value in computer solutions that we can.

Right now we have some stunning deals on USB thumb drives:

32 GB only £14.99 inc VAT!
64 GB £34.99 inc VAT
16 GB £9.99 unc VAT
8 GB £5.99 inc VAT

Perfect for holding copies of documents, photos, videos, music and much more


BUT please only use them as temporary storage and make sure that your important files are backed up correctly.


If you are not sure how to back up correctly, pop in and we'll show you how to backup your computer and protect your data for free!

When a backup is not a backup

A client brought an external drive into us that contained all of her most valuable digital assets: photos, music, home videos, documents and ALL of her uni course work.

The problem is that she cannot read the drive and she has no other copies of the data.

We have tried every technique in the book and we just cannot get the drive to talk to us. We have replaced the controller board, sorted some dry joints, used various file systems to try and kick the drive into life, even a short spell in the freezer and the old electric short jump start failed :(

Alas we are unable to help her

So the lesson to be learned is that external drives are fallible and they WILL fail at some point. Do not rely on them as your sole means of backup. U must have at least 3, preferably 5 copies of your data in existence at any one time AND in separate geographical locations.

Local, external drive and online backups should all be part of your backup strategy.

A very useful saying: Just remember Jesus saves, Buddha makes incremental backups. Thanks to Scott Cowie for this gem