Spring cleaning includes digital hygiene. Backing up your data with a physical drive is crucial for protecting irreplaceable memories, critical documents, and personal information from hardware failure, viruses, cyberattacks, and human errors. Choose a reliable drive with ample storage and prioritize backing up essential documents, financial records, photos, videos, work and educational materials, emails, contacts, music and media collections, software and app data, website bookmarks, game saves and profiles, and creative works.