I'm off to Uni to study Comp Sci in a couple of weeks, so I was on a tight budget putting together my desktop and had to prioritise storage and backup over speed. Unfortunately I couldn't afford a boot SSD at the time but this is a likely future upgrade. I could only afford to buy a single 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar HDD because it was on sale and offered a year-long warranty (I'm hoping to buy another to put in Raid 1 for redundancy soon). As a temporary 'ghetto-style' safety measure I have a spare 250GB Freecom External Hard Drive placed into the front/bottom of my case with cable-ties securing it (just about). I'm using this to manually backup all of my important documents in preparation for uni, but it's a tedious solution. I would love to win one or more WD HDDs as a NAS solution would be perfect at uni. I am already accustomed to manually backing up data, so having an external 'cloud storage' system would be practical and mean I wouldn't have to ghetto-mod my PC just to secure important work!
