Why choose Carbonite instead of other backup methods?
There are four important considerations when deciding how to backup your data:Time & Hassle — If you have to think about backups, you probably won’t ever get around to doing them. That’s why only 2% of home computers are backed up regularly. In addition, most computer users do not know where all of their important files are stored on their computer and would therefore otherwise miss critical information if they were selecting specific items to be backed-up. With Carbonite, you download our software, and leave the rest up to us. Cost — If you backed up your computer daily to CDs, you’d go through hundreds of dollars worth of CDs a year. Outboard hard drives cost $150 and up. Traditional online backup services cost at least $100 per year and offer only limited capacity. Carbonite offers unlimited storage capacity for just a few dollars per month. A note on CD backups: some people wrongly assume that backing up files to CD offers a permanent solution. However, the nature of chemicals us