I just had two storage drives fail on me in a matter of days—one the primary source, the other the main daily backup destination. The drives were of different types, different manufacturers, and different year of production, but still failed at the same time. It would have been a catastrophic loss of personal data (documents, photos, memories) if I didn’t have two additional backups. I started to be paranoid about backups three or four years ago when I automated my backups and made multip...
