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Now that you're in the know, get to making and checking a backup of your data, before you lose it! As someone who lost precious, priceless data both to a lamp falling on a drive and a major corruption bug in a bad enclosure, trust me when I say that you will thank yourself later.

More information can be found on the following pages:

• http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/31745-data-recovery-tales-raid-is-not-backup
• http://blog.open-e.com/why-raid-is-not-a-backup/
• http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-backup