[g__day (Matthew)]

Yes a terabyte! - 6 hard disk drives over one rotten spanning stripe!

Imagine you just suffered the worst data corruption you could imagine - say it takes you 30 hours just to rebuild your machine.

Next you have to find all the operating system disks, drivers, utilities, applications, games, pictures, recipies, stored mails, phone lists, contact sheets, tax files, work files spanning a decade.

You can probably picture my weekend then. An upgrade to a quad core platform, a RAID arrays disk stripe going wrong etc... crash!

How well do you back up your data?

I have several networked PCs and nearly all my software and files on CD. I am not sure if all my piccys are somewhere - the most important I burnt to disk. I put quite a few gigs of work files on a USB key - very luckily - just last weekend.

But in 27 years of dealing with PCs I've never blown a full tera-byte of data away - until now.

I'd say I have nearly all programs back, all work files, no e-mail (the backup got clobbered) I'm going hunting for songs and family pictures now.

But just a thought - how well are your precious memorys stored and backed up?

Matt