There is always the risk of losing your home hard drive and all you data and photos etc with it. So you need to keep it backed up and safe.

We have a D-Link NAS drive (Network Attached Storage) configured as RAID.

It has two drives inside the box and automatically mirrors your data in the background between both the drives.

The chances of both drives failing at the same time is so remote it is negligible so the safety backup is actually done by the box istelf.

So we do not store data on our local PC hard drives but on the NAS drives instead. This way all PCs can see the data at any given time and its safe.

Only cost us about $300 to set up with two 1TB drives in it. A good solution and saves you having to pay for slower cloud storage which uses your internet bandwidth. All you need to have is a home network as the box plugs into a spare ethernet port on your switch or router.

If ever you had a disaster in your house you would just have to grab this box in one hand and run with it and you have saved everything.