Has anyone ever had a harddrive or external harddrive crash and you lost important data /files?

I've had three drives (2 internal, 1 external) from the same manufactuer fail on me in the last two years. All I could do for one of them was sigh and try to remember what was on there. The second drive was my Steam install drive.

I had to re-download all my games to the replacement drive, but fortunately my save games had been saved to cloud storage via Steam. The lessons I've learned over the years regarding important data: 1) Have multiple, seperate backups, stored in different locations, of the stuff you can't live without. Buying an extra hard drive just to store it in a drawer might be expensive, but it's worth the peace of mind.

2) Make sure at least one of said backup copies is stored on physical media (hard drive, flash drive, optical disc). Cloud-based storage isn't perfect or 100% reliable. 3) Don't trust SeaGate hard drives.

No, because I maintain two physical backups plus backups of important documents in the cloud....Be prepared.

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