I had two WD 150GB Raptor drives configured in RAID0 on my main PC. Knowing it is risky, I used to back up my photos at least once a week. After a couple of trips and busy schedule, I was getting lazy and simply forgot to back up the PC. Last week one of the drives failed (physical drive failure) and I lost all of my fox pictures! I was so disappointed, because I had over 500 photos of fox kits and I only have about 10 pics that I exported out of Lightroom in 1600px resolution :( If only I had saved them on my external backup drive, I wouldn’t have lost anything.
I don’t know what the hell I was thinking, bad lesson learned! Going forward, I will be copying files from the cards into two locations. Remember to back up your data more often!
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I used to backup my files on External hard drive as well, but bu the terrible accident both my phisival drive on computer and my external hard disk failed. I guess I’ll have to store my data on more then two drives from now on :)
WebMonster: oh wow, that’s crazy! Two drives failing at the same time is just bad luck, I think. I guess I also have to start backing up on multiple drives!