Secure your data with these excellent backup and storage devices.

Don’t lose your valuable data! We all know this — software can be replaced, data can’t. It’s as simple as that. Yet how many of us are disciplined enough to regularly back up data? And then disaster strikes …

No longer. Backing up your data is a cinch with either of these devices (not much to choose between them). A massive 120 GB of storage (they even have 240 GB drives), simple operations and blazingly fast. Just plug them into your USB port or firewire port and off you go.

The Freecom HDD is lightweight and about the size of a paperback novel (maybe smaller). Comes in various flavours and has a built in synch-button.

The Iomega External HDD also comes in various capacities — upto 240GB. Also offers blazingly fast Firewire connectivity in addition to the USB and their support is terrific.

Both come with back up and synchronization software, but the Freecom has a slight edge here. Once you configure the software, you just press a button on the drive and it does the rest automatically. The Iomega’s marginally easier to get up and running — and, by the way, their support is outstanding.