Back your shit up.
We're well into the 21st century here. I have zero patience or respect for people who go 'Wah, my computer crashed and I lost everything!'
You could back up to an extra hard drive.
You could back up to an online service.
You could back up to another computer.
You could back up to a network storage box.
You could back up to a private VPS.
You could burn backups to BluRay or DVD.
You could back up to USB thumb drives.
You could back up to tape.
You could even back up to diskette, if you're a masochist.
'But I have too much to back up!' So don't back up all the pirated movies and TV and music you downloaded. You can re-pirate it. Or if it's all legit DVD rips, re-rip it.
Most people only have a few gigs of actual, personal data. A terabyte, at the outside. That's not hard to back up.
And if you do, personally, generate multiple terabytes of data, you REALLY have no excuse for not having a backup.
Me? I back up to network drives (plural), and periodically back those up to BluRay discs, and mail those discs to a relative so I have an off-site backup in case the house burns down or something.
And the important stuff is on the computer it lives on, the NAS on a RAID-5, an additional flat backup on an external hard drive, AND on BR discs.
Overkill? Maybe. But once it's set up properly it's all automated, except for burning the discs every now and then.
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