I\u2019m always telling my students that they should backup anything they want to keep and that goes for the rest of us. I always keep things in at least three places \u2013 the original computer, the cloud, and a server at the house. Over the years I\u2019ve had several<\/p>\n
My favorite, which I am in morning for to this day was a HP Device that ran Windows Home Server. That thing was the easiest to use. I could just stick a thumb drive in a computer, come back to it 4 hours later and it was back to whatever state I wanted it in.<\/p>\n
But all hardware has a limited life. I still have it, but have removed the working drives, and it sits gathering dust.<\/p>\n
My next favorite devices are also old, but still working, a Buffalo Terabyte NAS and an Iomega NAS. <\/p>\n
The Buffalo NAS had really good customer service and good software.<\/p>\n
Iomega was bought out by Lenovo. I haven\u2019t dealt with customer service since they were bought out, but I do have one of the new devices: <\/p>\n