The question for the week is security and what would I lose if my personal computer failed. For me, the biggest issue would be the music. I have tons of music on my computer that I've acquired over the years. This would be a tremendous hassle and expense to try and recover that I'm not exactly sure what I would do. The positive to this loss is that while it would be stressful it could be done.
On the other hand my wife would lose all her pictures. These pictures, unlike my music, can't be replaced. Whenever I suggest we delete some pictures that I feel are subpar or portray me in a less than flattering light, my wife will claim that I'm destroying her "memories". I try to explain memories are in her mind, and that these are pictures. She never seems to come around to my point of view. If these pictures/memories were lost my wife may totally lose it. I can only pray that the computer problem wouldn't be my fault as to make me the subject of her violent rage. The only way I could see these being recovered right now would be to have my family and friends travel all over the world and time to recreate as many of the shots that we could remember. Talk about expensive.
The good news is that we have recently purchased an external hard drive. It is my understanding (my wife is the system manager), that by occasionally updating our hard drive we are insulating ourselves against the major loss that we were vulnerable to prior to our purchase. I really hope she is right.
P.S. I may have exaggerated my wife's emotional state after a hypothetical data loss to help get a point across, she is really a very understanding woman whom I love very much.
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