What Would Happen if Your Hard Drive Failed?

Explore the various ways to back up your important data from a simple solution to a comprehensive one.

Have you ever asked yourself what would happen to your picture files if your hard drive failed?  I ask this question because a week ago, I lost a hard drive.

When I was just getting started, I would have lost everything.  I had a desktop computer with a single internal hard drive and everything was on it.

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So what did I do?  I went out and invested in an external drive.  Now I could at least back up my important files.  That would include more than just the photo files but it definitely included them.  The advantage was that now I had two copies of my important files and it was unlikely that both the desktop hard drive and the external drive would fail at the same time.  But there was a downside….

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