It’s only appropriate that I found a story idea on storage failure right as I experienced the worst hard drive failure of my life. Long story short, after two days of agony, I lost some downloaded files, nothing I can’t live without, and my entire Outlook contact list. Years of building up contacts, all gone. And I almost lost my documents folder. You know, finances, tax returns, all of my writing. So it was a brutal weekend.

Now before you say “Why aren’t you using cloud backup,” I used local backup. It was a second drive that sat idle and powered down in my PC 99% of the time, which is where I recovered most of the files. But I had to remember to make manual backups via drag and drop. Now I’m using a cloud backup service to make daily backups of the vital files.

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