Can I just buy an external hard drive to backup?

Traditionally, most people go out and buy an external hard drive or NAS box for their backups. But usually what happens is, an individual will purchase the drive, move their data to the drive while deleting the original files from their computer. The drive is now used to expand their storage capacity, rather than used as a backup. If the external drive fails, there’s no way to recover the data other than through a data recovery service which can be very expensive.

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