If you aren’t backing up your home computer on a regular basis, you are either insane, don’t care about your data, or have never lost a hard drive before. Did you know hard drives have a 100% failure rate — every hard drive will eventually die. It’s not a question of “if,” but “when.” To date, I’ve been lucky; I haven’t had any critical drives die on me yet, but I did something earlier today that sure made me glad I run nightly backups. It all started this morning when I noticed my website was running slow. Like, really slow.… (read more)