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Most recommended: File back-up system

In the digital age we can take photos and video on myriad devices, listen to our entire record collection on our mobile phones and have every document or email we’ve ever written is at our fingertips.

But while the letters, photos, LPs and cine films of past generations gathering dust in the attic, their digital equivalents are reduced to magnetic bits and bytes inside a hard disk.