One of the most important if not the most important things you need to do is back up your data. Be it your music, videos or photos cause once they have gone that’s it….
Whilst pc’s are a wonderful way of enjoying all this media and quick it can all disappear for good as fast as it appears.
You can backup manually to cd or dvd with up to 4.7 GB of data per disc but this will need a lot of self disapline and can easlier be a task forgotten.
There are another ways usb storage but don’t rely on usb memoray sticks as they are an unstable way of keeping your data. External drives are a good method.
Now there are 2 types plain external drives and drives that run a programme that’ saves you data for you, so you don’t need to worry about it .You set it up once and configure what you want saved and it’ll run it once and any differences will be backup automatically.
The basic rule of thumb is the more the backups the better, you cant have enough.