Trying to decide if Arq premium is a good choice for a backup newbie like me (help needed)
Hello everyone!
Recently, I bought a MacBook Neo for college and decided that I should probably have some kind of backup in place. I also have an ASUS (Windows 11) laptop that I want to back up as well.
I learned how to do manual backups to an external hard drive a few years ago for my Windows laptop, and I was doing them every night at first. However, I quickly fell out of the habit of backing up consistently. Now, with a Mac in the mix, the external drive I have doesn't work as well because it doesn't plug into my Mac.
Now onto the Arq part. I use Obsidian.md for note-taking, and I'm in the Discord server as well. I was scrolling through one of the channels and saw Arq mentioned as a backup tool. I did some Googling, and now I'm interested, but still a little unsure. $59.99 is a lot of money for me (I'm unemployed, trying to save as much as I can, and will soon be a college student), so TL;DR: Is Arq worth it for someone like me, or in general? Should I skip the Premium version and save $9.99?
Please let me know what you all think! Any feedback is greatly appreciated. 🩷