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Originally Posted by haertig
I hope this logic does not carryover into general computer backups. "I've never had a harddrive go bad on me, so I don't bother backing mine up."
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Well, I've never had a hard drive go bad on me.
That said, I'm pretty anal about backups of any kind (I'm a pessimist by nature). Also I tend to have several laptops and tablets in use and buy new ones every few years (electronic devices, ebooks and cat stuff are the only areas in my otherwise pretty frugal life where I splurge), so backups come in handy there too. I usually have a new computer long before something happens to the old one. But I need to move all my stuff to the new one regularly, of course, because of this habit.
Many people I know use their work laptops for personal stuff. IMO that's stupid, but it's not my business. And many people don't even have that much personal stuff on their hard drives. Most of their photos are in Facebook or Instagram, and there's really nothing else worth keeping. Me, I'm a nerd and a hoarder, so I have tons of various stuff. But I think I'm an exception rather than the norm.