You don't want to hear- " I told you so"

We all are amassing more and more digital stuff.  Filling our computer hard drives, SD cards, thumb drives and flash memory with digital photos, videos, documents, music and more.  The rate at which we create digital content is increasing, the size of the files created is increasing, as is the technology to create larger capacity drives.  

This creates a single point of failure- since you can get a 2TB drive, you can fit everything on it.  You don't need anything else right?  Wrong!   An article discusses how hard drive manufacturers are actually decreasing the number of years for new hard drive warranties- from 5 to 3 years.  They recognize that hard drives do and will crash.  Drive quality is decreasing as capacities are increasing.  What does this mean?  Your precious data is at risk more than ever before.  What can you do?

A noted digital photographer and author, Peter Krogh, advises that there be 3 copies of every file that's important to you (not 3 copies of a file on the same drive).  Follow the 3-2-1 rule and your digital life has a chance of survival.