Good question. Well i store some important data on my old laptops hard drive its small and compact and i have kit sata pata to usb you can use from any pc its quick and easy to use i bought that kit after my laptop died it vas very old piece of crap and i needed to recover some data from it. And also i store back ups in my storage email in zip fail with passvord on it i upvote follow hope you follov me back cheers