For most ICT professionals, computers and related media are just means of production, not the meaning themselves. In the middle of a complicated midnight operation, imagine that your external storage starts ticking off as it tries to tell you that something is going wrong. This would embitter you as it raises doubts that your whole valuable data might be vanishing in front of your eyes, or they’ve already left the place. I know how it is depressing to leave the current work and face a hard disk issue out of the blue. But when this takes place, it means that you’ll run after your storage media in a panic to rescue your data especially if you’re not synchronizing them into another location periodically.

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