A huge fire in Fargo occurred recently in which many people lost all of their belongings.  While it is important to have renters insurance to protect your physical property it is also very important to protect your digital data.

Today I personally signed up for SpiderOak, an extremely competitively priced backup program.  Students get their first 200 gigabytes at half price, so you get 100 gigs for $50/yr or 200 gigs for $100/yr (you can get more space but it goes back to normal pricing of $100/yr for 100 gigs).  To get the discount just sign up with your .edu email address.

This price is extremely cheap vs. competitors.  If you want to try the service out sign up for 2 gigs free, no credit card required!

Please note that if you sign up for a free or paid account you are helping out Campus Dakota.  Campus Dakota will receive a small commission for each new member that signs up.  This will help us pay for our server and other operational costs.  When signing up be sure to use the link https://spideroak.com/download/promo/cd1 and use the promo code cd1

Go check it out and let us know what you think!