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Always, always backup. And frequently! Don't trust your local harddrive (especially if it's a device you frequently take with you), don't trust flashdrives, don't even trust your local fileserver if it doesn't have built-in backups (and even if it does, check that those backups actually work). If it's not saved on at least two physical places (two drives in the same PC/server count, but it's sketchy on its own), it's not backed up!
3-2-1 Backup: 3 copies, on 2 types of media, 1 of which is offsite.
Lucky me, I recently acquired two 4TB hard drives, and I'm making a point to use one as my active backup, and every few months or so, clone that drive to the other one and swap them, just in case one ever fails ya know..
Why not just use a RAID?
My CPU crapped out. And the wire leading to the thing that goes 'beep' when you turn on cpu was broken.
In trying to diagnose the CPU issue, I had to turn computer on and off a lot. Somehow, doing that on and off repeatedly corrupted the hard drives. So raid doesn't protect against problems like that or power spikes that fry things.
I haven't seen a PC that would actually have audible post codes in a very long time. Nowadays it's usually LEDs, or a very simple little display.
I just scatter mine under the fingernails of multiple unhoused individuals throughout the city. It’s a bit of a pain, but it’s peace of mind. I’m thinking of expanding into microfiche hidden in fortune cookies next.
Don't forget to draw your backups in the sand..
Uh, you should maybe read up on the latest trump executive order. Those unhoused fingernail storage units are likely to all end up in the same place.
I convert all my files to wavforms and teach starlings the songs
Hard to take the photo of it, but I backed up your comment to a CD:
Software used: https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage
I do the same thing but inscribe them onto clay pottery.