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>It's so easy to backup everything for free these days. Google Drive/Dropbox if you don't care about encryption

those let you back up maybe 50GB (if you abuse all the promos), which is pretty small.

Use Arq, backup to Backblaze storage, and pay $0.005/GB/month. That 50 GB would cost $0.25 a month. If you can afford a MacBook, you can afford an encrypted cloud backup of your HD.

I think that once you've paid for enough school, you can't afford not to backup your dissertation.

You travel with 50GB of original content for personal use?

if you shoot lots of 4k video or raw photos, you can easily burn through a couple of 64gb sd cards on travels

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