Back up medium.

What do you prefer for a back up medium for your pc?
I'm talking about OS images as well as different types of files.
Thanks.
Hugger

 

A USB External Hard Drive (1 choice) or DVD +R (2 choice gets a little Expensive)

 

I use a usb2 external hard drive (500GB < $100, terabyte not a whole lot more). I can do full backups until I get tired of them. And verify/restore are one click operations

 

An external and/or removable hard disk.

Unlike CD or DVDs you don't need special software to put files on a hard disk

 

external drive + adrive 50 gb online storage.

 

External HD definitely. 2 o' them. Going for a third with double the size.

 

Mirror-image sets on two USB hard drives.

 

Any sense in using flash drives or ssd's?

 

Some people say that flash media is not stable enough to be trusted with something as important as critical files and backup images.

While I have never attempted to recover a backup image from flash media, I have for several years and literally hundreds of occurrences installed software applications (.zip and .exe) from USB flash drives and have never experienced a corrupted install.

 

Good advice.
Thanks everybody for your help.
Hugger