After my hard drive went bad, I’ve realized that my home office needs a better data back up plan. First, I’ve ordered a bigger hard drive on Amazon. This will be a brand new drive and not a refurbished drive. My current hard drive is running out of disk space and does not provide enough room for all my projects. Computer Geeks issued me a RMA for the defective hard drive I bought from them so that may give me another hard drive.
Right now I just back up data to CD or DVD. I plan to do that more frequently. I’m creating an Emergency Repair Disk and backing up my System State more frequently. I’ve made a list and schedule of what should be backed up.
My older back up PC needs a bigger hard drive as well. I need to install some software on that so it can be used to continue work if my current PC dies.
Later on I plan to buy an external hard drive for backing up data and I may consider buying a RAID controller and more drives to set up a RAID system.
