There are two primary types of storage in use for computers these days. One uses "flash" memory that has no moving parts (solid state drive) and the other uses a magnetic platter on which the data is stored (hard disk drive). SSDs are more expensive but less failure prone than the older tech with the spinning platter. A 500 GB SSD is probably $100 retail these days. A similar size HDD can be had for half that cost.
Get yourself a cloud storage account, please. You should be able to store a backup copy of everything you have ever written in your life for free. Relatively secure and I haven't lost a single word I've written in 15 years. I use a three-tiered backup strategy. Original file, local backup, and offsite backup.
Being a computer semi-illiterate, I have to confess I have no idea what that is. Please educate me.
There are two primary types of storage in use for computers these days. One uses "flash" memory that has no moving parts (solid state drive) and the other uses a magnetic platter on which the data is stored (hard disk drive). SSDs are more expensive but less failure prone than the older tech with the spinning platter. A 500 GB SSD is probably $100 retail these days. A similar size HDD can be had for half that cost.
I suspect with my computer's age, and the fact that the whole thing came to $150, that I have an HDD.
Get yourself a cloud storage account, please. You should be able to store a backup copy of everything you have ever written in your life for free. Relatively secure and I haven't lost a single word I've written in 15 years. I use a three-tiered backup strategy. Original file, local backup, and offsite backup.
Where do you go to get one of those?
https://www.dropbox.com/basic email me if anything is confusing: penfist@gmail.com - I have a master of science in systems management and will help if I can.
Oh, I do have one of those, somewhere. I guess I ought to use it.