CarboniteOddly, this happened to me yesterday.   I thoughtfully wrote an article about the police in my city, when bang the power went out and my computer shut down. I sent a flurry of curse words into the air. Then I remembered, I had invested in Carbonite. I sighed with relief, knowing that my lost file was available to me. I simply had to re-download it to my computer. Phew, what a relief.

I know you can related to this, additionally, there are worse issues that can happen to your computer rendering it useless. It is a fantastic statistic that millions of hard drives crash every year. And oddly, we carry auto insurance, life insurance and all kinds of methods to evade tragedy in our lives, yet the one thing that we use on a consistent basis we don’t provide any type of coverage for. Imagine for a moment, that your hard drive crashes; it cannot be recovered and everything you have on it in is gone. Forever. I don’t know about you, but as a freelance writer, I spend my entire day sitting in front of my laptop. If it …