Back up hard drive help needed

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Originally Posted by chellyroo

Ok, I took my laptop in to the computer repair guys this morning, and they are running a diagnostic on the main HD to see if there is corruption (b/c of the warning screen I got last night) and they ordered a Seagate One TOuch 1TB for me for $159 for my external drive, and recommended an of site online storage as additional insurance (of course they want me to use theirs, which is $30 month!). Looks like I might also end up replacing the HD on the laptop I'm just grateful it didn't actually crash since I have NO data backed up right now!

$169 for a 1TB ext drive?!? you can get a seagate freeagent desk 750GB for $80.......

http://dealnews.com/Seagate.com-Outl...ng/327925.html

and $30 a month for their online backup service?? you can get carbonite (highly reputable) for $55 a YEAR....... ($55 versus $360....)

http://www.carbonite.com/

more reading on online backup services.....
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2288745,00.asp

i can't help but think these computer repair guys of yours are trying to "soak" a little money out of you.