what do you have in your survival binder

[Highlander]

Highlander,

USB drives are cheap enough. Put the laptop and a USB drive in a faraday cage. When you are ready to update get a new drive and put the files on. Put in it's own faraday cage and that means you have a back up. Repeat every time you want to update your laptop and files. Better too many backups and lets face it they are worthless for anything else.

I really think this is the way to go,.. a laptop is going to last a long time if looked after,..at least long enough for us to learn what we need to know before it goes broke