I mentioned yesterday that my mom is getting a new computer soon…we ordered her Dell this week. I had to order a $40 Belkin transfer cable along with it. I don’t know if that’s the easiest, or best way to transfer her data from her old machine to her new machine, but it’s worth a shot. Of course, had I know about IDrive-E Online Backup I could have saved my mom $40. IDrive provides secure online backups, for up to 2GBs of data…for free. Need more space? You can get an unlimited account for $4.95 a month. Considering my mom doesn’t have that much to backup - pictures, a few word docs - the free account would be perfect for her.

Once you download IDrive you can immediately start using it to schedule files and folders for backup. You can drag and drop anything you want to save a copy of, and the interface is very similar to what most Windows users deal with daily. If you’d like to see more, check out the IDrive demo to find out how it can work for you!