# How do I burn my backed-up files onto a CD?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 18, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-burn-my-backed-up-files-onto-a-cd/449758 "2008-05-18T16:35:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-burn-my-backed-up-files-onto-a-cd/449758/21 "2008-05-22T23:11:26Z")

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I use a Western Digital 500 GB “MyBook” external hard drive. It cost about $129 on sale at O/D a few months ago. Similar and smaller ones are in this week’s e-store sales brochures.

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**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-burn-my-backed-up-files-onto-a-cd/449758/22 "2008-05-22T23:24:48Z")

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Yup. I have a 250GB Western Digital My Passport drive. It stunned me, being able to back up critical data from both computers onto there and have plenty of space left over.

I have to admit, I bought my desktop way back when 60GB was pretty big. 😃 I don’t do a lot of space hogging stuff on there, so I haven’t taken up a lot of space.

And yes. I would be very leery of backing stuff up on a third party’s computers. Especially when said stuff contains stuff such as sensitive financial data and that sort of thing. :eek:

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