Western Digital again!

In a world where everything is digital, losing a single file is almost unbearable. It's even more tormenting when your PC just starts to freeze and you can't do anything but to have it reformatted. Reformatting is never an issue but the files that you have been keeping since day one is. In my case I can't imagine losing the most important files in my drive, and these are my mp3s and my precious movies. And just this week, I realized that that my PC is really getting older, it's almost five years already and though it still works normally (at least for most part of it) except for battery which only lasts for 5 to 10 mins and the optical drive which doesn't read anything anymore, I feel like it's gonna give up on me very soon. And what I'm afraid of, in case it crashes and I have to reformat it and since the optical drive won't work how would I reinstall the OS? Plus I don't have the installer for drivers and all. You can think of the worst think can possibly happen to my Jurrasic laptop. Poor me. I'm thinking of getting a new one but that would be very costly, so I just decided to have a portable hard drive for me to at least back-up the files for the mean time in case it the doom starts. So I closed my eyes and picked 3,000 pesos from my wallet and purchased a 500GB external hard disk this afternoon and started doing the back-up. Wish I would be able to save enough money for a new laptop before anything happen to my current one.

I got a 500GB Western Digital portable hard drive, my second one actually. The first one which is already full is a 250GB which was given to me as a gift by one of my best friends (I always get gagdets as a gift from us, so lucky me hehe). I don't have issue so far with WD so I think it's a good brand. It comes with one year warranty. And besides I was able to get a 310 pesos discount. I looked around this afternoon in almost every computer shops in different malls, the price is almost 4,000 or even higher. I found a stall in Cubao called Compex and they were on sales and before I knew it I was making my way to MRT station with a plastic bag in my hand with the portable hard drive in it. Cool!