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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I know quite some people who spend a great deal of time caring for their $500 Canon photo camera "because it was so expensive", but they don't think twice about backing up the 5000 pictures they took with it. It's as if they assume that if a picture is on the hard drive, it will be there forever. Strangely enough, the older photo albums, made before the time of digital camera's, are in a safe.
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A lot of years ago, when I wasn't as obsessive about backups, I had a hard-drive crash. That crash caused the loss of hundreds of megabytes of photographs. I now backup my systems religiously. *Anybody* who thinks their hard-drive is going to last forever is eventually in for a sad suprise.