The computer in your Hard Drive will crash, sooner or later. That disk spins at up to 15,000 RPM. It’s inevitable.

I hate all spinning disk technologies. They are unreliable.

Most missed if you lose data are the music files, photos and videos.

Best way to avoid that grief, is to backup to the “cloud”.

The two biggest players are Mozy and Carbonite.

Click PLAY to watch a video review on both on YouTube.

I tried the free trial of Carbonite for Mac. If I sign on, the cost is about $3.50/month. (That’s cheaper than buying external hard drives as I’ve been doing over the past few years.)

But Carbonite in 2009 admitted loss of backups of “over 7,500 customers”. So I’ll keep doing the local backup to a 1TB drive using Time Machine software, as well.

I do have important data I don’t want to lose. This way all of my files will be backed up at least twice in two different places, one being the cloud.

UPDATE: My free trial was successful. Carbonite worked. But since my ISP only allows about 4GB / day upload, not all the files could be backed up.

I will be signing up for one or the other service … but I’m a little irritated with Carbonite because their customer service department did not reply to an email I sent them. Perhaps I’ll email Mozy and see if they reply.