Digital Trends

Hard drive failure is inevitable, and if you’re not backing up your PC on a regular basis, you’re running the risk of losing all the music, digital photos, documents, and everything else that’s stored on it. It’s a fact. It’s also a fact that most of us don’t back up our hard drives because it’s a royal pain. Who has the time? Besides, when was the last time your hard drive actually failed?

Stop making excuses though, pick up a Seagate Replica, and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing your data is protected. Mind you, the device is slow and the 250GB model Seagate provided for evaluation is a little short on capacity, but the product is dead simple to use and it will back up everything on your hard drive—including all your data, all your installed programs, and the operating system. This renders disaster recovery a nearly effortless matter of installing a new hard drive, dropping the Replica’s bootable recovery disc in the machine’s optical drive, and plugging the Replica into a USB port. This is a far superior solution to back-up devices that copy only your data and force you to spend hours reinstalling and reconfiguring your operating system and all your software.