If you don't have a robust backup solution in place, your data is at risk. Hard drive failure is devastating, and hardware problems can happen without warning. The best way to protect yourself and your data is to setup two layers of backup protection. The first is an external hard drive with hourly backups. If something happens to your computer's hard drive, you can quickly recover your files from the external drive. You should also subscribe to a cloud backup service, such as Crashplan. In the case of a failure of both drives, or a disaster like a fire or flood, your files will be safe on their servers. I have had several clients whose hard drives failed without warning, and even the best data recovery company was not able to restore their data. Since they didn't have a backup, their data was lost forever. Don't let it happen to you: Casatech will set up redundant automatic backups on your computer to give you peace of mind and protection from inevitable hardware failure. With a hard drive, it's not a matter of if, but when.