And your reasoning behind that is?

The Nand memory in flash drives.

I back up all the time. Right now I use Acronis Disk Director and just image my drive. Anybody have any suggestions on more simple ways of backing up. It's fine for me but if I didn't have to ever do anything to initiate it, and never worry about it that would be nice.

Where's your proof?

Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup

i don't need backup,here is normal and normal.

You should have a backup, your HD might fail, and you could lose a lot of data!

my hard drive never failed,is ok right now,i think i have it since i get my windows xp in end of 2004.isn't very old,but is working right now.

I back up every time a change my os ,because i prefer clean install and i have to format my HDD

I have a daily auto backup on a USB Stick of imporant stuff and previous DVD´s copies of that and other things.

An old sayin: "Better safe than sorry"

I've recently tried a couple of Apps and like fBackup pretty well. It's completely free and easy to schedule backups and use.

I usually put my files in c:\ ,because i don't think that my computer will crash in a short time

is better have a backup or put files on other partition to lost lot of data that you downloaded,this is no good.sigh

if i need to put them all in the USB disk,i may need to buy 30 pieces of 8GB USB disk

I did not do a full systems backup but I saved my whole home directory on my secondary partition, backed up my most important things (htdocs folder, mysql databases, projects and pictures folder) to my external HDD (just 20 GB drive... ) and my work things to my USB stick
But I think I'm gonna image my whole hard drive to my 250 GB external drive, but I don't trust this drive (some times does not power up from USB and things)

I perform a full backup once in a while and I also perform daily incremental backups. My main backup media is an external hard drive.

the last backup was on 14.03.2009, some important textfiles only.

i have images of all my computers as they were with fresh installs. I keep my data backed up on an external hard drive and on a file server... i think its a decent system

I sometimes use acronis true image, but i deactivated it in the last months cause i copy my really important files to my external hdd, i also save nearly every data (even my cursor shemes) on this.

I think my last backup was... 7/29/09
i just felt no need for it, since i was backing up to a 1TB drive but, what if that failed, i have alot of data on there...
*knocks on wood*
i only had laptop HDDs fail on me

I am backing up 700GB to an external FireWire drive right now using Microsoft SyncToy. It's been over a month since my last backup and I've encoded a lot of stuff since then. I started out with Windows Backup in Windows 7 last night, but god, is it slow, and I'm a little weary about the restoring aspect of it.

While this backs up I think I'll go see MacGruber at the $1.00 theater with the girlfriend.

I don't have any important data at all.

bah, I have enough of an issue getting the storage space to meet my needs, let alone enough space to maintain a backup.

I haven't since I got win 7, but I've really been meaning to.

i'm planning to have a backup since i have a bigger hard drive now.