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<blockquote data-quote="dervari" data-source="post: 107606" data-attributes="member: 12434">One common thing I've noticed in this thread is that everyone is talking about LOCAL storage.&nbsp; Is anyone backing up to the cloud or taking a backup somewhere other than where the pictures are physically stored?&nbsp; Disasters are rare, but do occur.&nbsp; If the drive(s) that you are depending on for your pictures (in some cases, livelihood) are physically destroyed you have lost years or decades of work in a few minutes.I have 30 years in IT (dating from high school working with Apple Lisas and TRS-80s) and have seen this occur.&nbsp; While you think you're safe with your RAID1/5/10 storage array, all it takes is an instant to destroy a life's work.&nbsp; If you are not backing things up offsite, you should definitely look into it, even if it's just buying another drive, copying everything to it, and sticking it in a drawer at a relative or neighbor's house.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dervari, post: 107606, member: 12434"] One common thing I've noticed in this thread is that everyone is talking about LOCAL storage. Is anyone backing up to the cloud or taking a backup somewhere other than where the pictures are physically stored? Disasters are rare, but do occur. If the drive(s) that you are depending on for your pictures (in some cases, livelihood) are physically destroyed you have lost years or decades of work in a few minutes. I have 30 years in IT (dating from high school working with Apple Lisas and TRS-80s) and have seen this occur. While you think you're safe with your RAID1/5/10 storage array, all it takes is an instant to destroy a life's work. If you are not backing things up offsite, you should definitely look into it, even if it's just buying another drive, copying everything to it, and sticking it in a drawer at a relative or neighbor's house. [/QUOTE]

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