So most “techies” know that all things have a lifespan, electronics especially. So if you’re not backing up your data, you will be soon (or loosing that data). My family recently had a 1TB USB external disk fail. Turns out that the “disk” was actually two 500GB disks RAID’ed together. After some investigation it turns out that DISK1 has hardware failures, and DISK2 is fine. But since its RAID’ed together none of the data on DISK2 is available. I could send it off to a Professional to have the disk repaired, but my estimates put that at about $1000 [$US]. So I came up with three solutions:
- Use some kind of online backup service (Carbonite, Mozy, etc)
- Use a local backup service / server (Windows Home Server, a *NIX SAN, etc)
- Burn my data to DVD every month
Since I’m cheap and don’t mind to work, I’m going for route #3.
If you have another suggestion, please let me know?