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Notes on keeping data alive.
No product announcements dressed up as insight — just the reasoning behind how backup should work.
- Fundamentals
Why RAID Is Not a Backup
RAID protects against one specific failure mode. Everything else that destroys data walks straight through it.
14 Jan 2026 · 6 min read
- Fundamentals
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule Explained
Three copies, two kinds of media, one offsite. A forty-year-old rule that still decides who recovers.
22 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
- Hardware
What Happens When an External Hard Drive Fails?
The failure modes of portable drives, what recovery actually costs, and why archives on a single disk are fragile.
3 Feb 2026 · 7 min read
- Fundamentals
Cloud Backup vs Cloud Storage
Sync tools and backup tools solve different problems. Confusing them is how people lose files.
11 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
- Security
How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware
Prevention fails eventually. Recoverability is what decides whether an incident is an afternoon or a catastrophe.
25 Feb 2026 · 8 min read
- Storage
How Much Storage Does the Average Computer Actually Use?
Storage planning is mostly a distribution problem, not an average problem.
6 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
- Business
How Businesses Should Back Up Employee PCs
Endpoint backup is a policy problem before it is a software problem.
18 Mar 2026 · 7 min read