Have you ever thought that it wouldn’t happen to you?

From what I’ve read about how our brains work, most of us have this thought frequently: I won’t be the one in the car accident, I won’t be the one whose identity is stolen, I won’t be the one who’s raped….

And in the business world, I won’t be the one whose hard drive dies. That sort of thing happens to someone else.

Somehow I thought that the hard drive on my laptop was invincible, but it died, shortly after returning home from my trip to Austin. It did happen to me. And it wasn’t the first time I had a hard drive die.

I live in a small house and don’t have a lot of possessions, so there’s a sense of purging here with the lost hard drive. Most of the important files were backed up, though perhaps not in the last week.

What do you do to backup your files? Do you use another external drive? Send the files from yourself? Hope for the best?