How much is the Data on your HD worth?

Shalmanese

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That is, total Economic, Social and emotional loss if your primary HD on all computers you own went caplut.

To me, I would say probably $100 - 200 since I just recently backed up my ultra important stuff onto a CD but I try to have at least a double if not triple redundancy by mirroring my data over 3 computers and 1 CD.

I know its hard to quantify emotional value but just a ball park figure.
 

Ronstang

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Mine isn't worth sh!t. I could lose my primary drive and not even lose any sleep. About the most important thing I have is saved games and who cares about those. I make sure there is nothing on my HD of importance that is not backed up so I never really worry very much. I even make 2 backup copies to CD just to be sure.
 

Mitzi

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Basically nothing. Since my hard disk died last November, I religiously backup anything of any worth/importance to CDRs.
 

Shalmanese

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While I find Backing up on CD's works, there is always the small flotsam of data that either hasnt been backed up yet or is in a kind of limbo where its not important enough to be preserved on CD but still important enough to keep on your HD.

Right now, I would have roughly 200 MB of that kind of stuff, mainly new downloads that have yet to be evaluated and categorised, I try to keep on top of it but it just seems to pile up. On top of that, I have some abandowarez that I dont think is important enough to back up but still need in case I want to play some old games :).
 

cipher00

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Doesn't everyone backup critical data?

The cost to me would be the time and aggravation of putting in a new HD. But, then again, I would have a nice, clean HD to work with. Hard to tell....
 

Wozster

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I have 5 computers in my house and save all of my files to my file server which gets backed up frequently to another disk and CD-R.
If I lost it all (as in a fire); I'd guess around $5000.
 

pulse8

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It's not worth much.

My secondary hard drive, on the other hand, is a whole different story. :)
 

Parrotheader

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With the exception of a few PGP protected directories, not much. That's the reason we have network servers, more secure (theoretically anyway) and backed up regularly. If I lost $40,000 worth of time/work for a client because my hard drive crashed I'd be in for a world of hurt.
 

Danman

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Nov 9, 1999
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Not much, I don't have a job, I go to high school and all I have on my drive is mp3's and pr0n which can all be re-downloaded. :D
 

kuk

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Three years of IB portfolios, two TOK essays and one extended essay.

Shalmanese: you know the stuff, you do the math ;)
 

ViperMagic

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To me, not much
But if you ask teh police, I think they'd tell you a few hundered thousand? Whats the fine for software/music piracy?
 

erub

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a bunch of old school documents that i dont really need anymore, and a lot of mp3z and warez which I could get again..I need some good backup software where i can just backup the whole drive, only being told where to swap CDs - anybody have any ideas? I dont want to make a bunch of separate cds using nero..
 

Orsorum

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Dec 26, 2001
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Including retail value of 7,000 songs, five movies, and about $2000 worth of software, probably about $11,000.
 

Bobomatic

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$36.75 26/57 actually everything important is on my secondary, and even that isnt that important. Its kinda screwy and unstable sometimes, Im thinkin of deleting everything and installing XP.
 

AmRoD

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about 500 albums of music @ say $10 a cd = $5000 ... + digicam pics of family and stuff which are priceless :)

if the insurance company is askin then 25k ;)