Hands up if you have ever lost important information or priceless family photos on your PC and have kicked yourself for not making an extra copy to keep as a backup. Yep even I learnt the hard way too.

With the best will in the world even the most careful among us forget from time to time. That’s partly why external USB and firewire hard drives are so popular. Great products but you still have to remember to plug them in and manually copy all those important files.

NAS external hard drives go a step further to make life even easier for you. Just plug it into an Ethernet port on your router (These days most of us have four at the back of our broadband wireless box). Once set up you PC will backup all your important files for you daily. The really clever thing is, because it’s plugged directly into your router (broadband box) and not your PC you never have to remember to plug it in and it can be connected to all your computers (including wirelessly) at the same time.

Here’s what Buffalo says…..