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Thanks, all. My laptop is always backed up at work with redundant servers, but this looks like a great option for backing up all those photos and personal files I have on various machines at home. I think it is more cost effective than an external hard drive, but I'll look at that as well.
Sort of a side-note, I just took five of my old PCs to the local PC graveyard (a recycling used-computer company). I had to pay to get rid of them. While I was there I wandered around the remnants of technology from over the past 20 years or so.
What a tremendous amount of ephemeral gadgets we've burned though in so short a time! I saw cutting edge devices that are now as obsolete as buggy whips. Zip drives, 28k modems, all-in-one word processesors, 8086 motherboards. So much money, enthusiasm, time, effort in learning systems, all sitting in the "as-is" bin for $0.80 and up. As a former electronics geek, it was exciting to see all that stuff, but as a consumer of much it, it was a bit sobering.
I'm less likely to buy gadgets these days and more inclined to take advantage of the infrastructure that's developed. On-line storage and on-line apps seem like the way to get out of the gadget race and let the big guys work out the kinks.
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