Another example to show that it’s not wise to put all your eggs in one basket (or all your digital files on one hard drive):
According to a CBC story, a lawyer in British Columbia is suing Apple Canada after his backup hard drive, an Apple Time Capsule, failed after three years of use. All of his data were lost.
The hard drive included pictures of the birth of his first child.
A sad fact of our digital lives is that all digital storage is inherently unstable. Hard drives will fail. Discs will become unreadable.
There’s a reason why most professional photographers back up their work at least in triplicate. A backup for the backup of the backup. There’s a reason why most top-end cameras allow for duplicate recording of pictures as they’re being shot.
Photographs are very valuable, especially irreplaceable family pictures. So why not spend a few cents and make extra backups? Blank CDs and DVDs are about 40¢ each and external hard drives might run 25¢ per gigabyte. It’s cheap insurance.
When, not if, your basket falls to the ground, will you lose all your eggs?
