It’s always a good idea to protect your computer-based data. The first line of defense for data protection is backing up your data. See my earlier posts (http://www.davidrier.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=121 and http://www.davidrier.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=123 ) for advice in that area.
Another way to protect your data is to set up your computer so that the hardware itself helps to protect the data. This tip requires that you have two or more hard drives on your system. As a result, it is usually used on servers.
Set up your system to use a RAID (a Redundant Array of Independent Drives). Since hard drives are getting bigger and less expensive over time, this should afford you some data protection without stretching your budget too far.
In further posts, I’ll go over the different types of RAIDs that you can set up and what dvantages they offer to you.
