Data is Money – Digital Money Too :)

(Digital Money World) There comes a day when this happens, and if you don’t take any precaution, you’d probably be cursing yourself. A year ago I was so happy with my brand new desktop computer (*note, I’m not a computer idiot). With a dual core processor 6600 overclocked, 4 hard disks, two pairs of raid 0 running, one magnificent pair of Western Digital Raptor hard disks (known to be the fastest and meanest among the SATA family), and a whooping 4gb ram on-board, I was pretty much complacent when it comes to computer usage.

Then the best thing happened.

I came back from work to find out that my computer failed to start; yes, I do have a habit of leaving the computer on almost all the time (that’s probably why). After much mangling around the hardwares, then I’ve diagnosed one of my powerful Raptor has failed on me, bringing alot of my precious information which caused me a bomb to obtained gone.

Lesson Learned

Always, always always back up your important data onto another media. If you have the money to spend for a Raid 1 system, you can do that.. Or just simply purchase an external hard disk to store your data.

I have an external hard disk to store precious data, but its just simply a complacency on my part for not dragging them in. You can always use a hard disk imager like Acronis to do a periodic backup for you as well.

Period.

Sigh..