I have a couple of friends whose external harddrives just died and with that also their years worth of data.
Why? Because they're consolidating all their data into this one external drive that they consider as "backup", great, and what happens when that drive fails? Single point of failure. You lose all your precious data.
Let me share what I personally do to keep my data safer. Redundancy, this is what I've learned from my years of experience in IT. Nothing beats data redundancy.
What I have at home are two external drives. One 1TB and one 2TB. My 1TB is my primary storage and the 2TB is the secondary.
Other PCs can do RAID, mine can't so I opted for File Sync.
I use FreeFileSync. You can use it to create a job that will sync the whole drive or specific folders to a target drive. I just picked the folders that I want to sync, not the whole drive.
I can choose to schedule the job but I rather not since my PC is not always ON, I just manually run the job whenever I have the time, but I make sure I do it as often as I could.
Protect your data! Backup your backup! :)
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