Comment by GTP

~30 years old here, and I can confirm I risked and suffered data loss multiple times. I remember when I still was at my parents house during university I had in mind to build a NAS to properly host the family's photo archive (main reason was bit rot protection, which we experienced, but I was planning for a proper backup as well). But I kept procrastinating. Then, I risked losing it due to a distraction. After spending one week to recover it, building a proper solution to host and backup it became top of my list.