Almalieque wrote:
I'm concerned of banking information and personal information. For example, every form in the military has your complete social and other unnecessary personal identifiable information. My solution is to put stuff in the cloud and sign out of my Google Drive and delete my desktop folder, but that would also result in me using an external backup as redundancy.
Buy a thumb drive. Heck. Buy a couple. They're dirt cheap. Periodically drop important documents on them. Data storage has gotten so cheap and so reliable and so "large", that it's pretty trivial to keep all important documents backed up a few times over. I basically keep a single directory area on my computer that has documents I care about (tax returns, financial/legal stuff, etc). So it's pretty easy to drag that to a similarly named folder on a removable drive whenever I feel like it. Of course, you can also spend money on some kind of cloud based backup if you really really care. But honestly, most people probably don't have more than half a GB of actual important data. Everything else on your computer is either OS related, or completely replaceable. Kinda silly to spend money saving your EQ setting files and whatnot, but that's the bulk of what you're actually doing with those services.
Oh. Ditto on the repair thing. Who takes a computer into a shop? Buy a virus scanner and use it. That should prevent 99% of software problems (I mention because it's shocking how many people bring computers into a shop because "it's slow"). And honestly, once you start having hardware problems on a computer, it's probably time to buy a new one. But if you do want to fix it, simple trouble shooting usually works. There really aren't that many removable/replaceable parts inside your computer. Umm... Barring something really obvious like a failed power supply or fan, it's either your video card, or your memory. Seriously. 99% of the time. And if it's not, see my point about replacing the computer.