All of my important files live on my USB drive, which I do my best to keep backed up, but of course I sometimes go a while between backups. Last year when my old one died, I lost a month of documents ...

A lot of us use our USB thumb-drives (flash drives, data sticks, whatever you call them) as little repositories for our daily document work. We keep Word docs, text files, photos, and other daily data ...

I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...