No matter what advice you ever see (even good ones) — the weakest security point of failure is always a human being.
As a simple advice for protecting files from hard drive breakdown:
1. buy mac and use built-in timemachine backup (can be encrypted). Works like a charm, nothing to think about, nothing to worry (except keeping your backup drive in safe place).
2. sync important files to cloud (dropbox, googledrive whatever). But be aware that this way you create additional door to steal your data.
As a simple advice for protecting files from hard drive breakdown:
1. buy mac and use built-in timemachine backup (can be encrypted). Works like a charm, nothing to think about, nothing to worry (except keeping your backup drive in safe place).
2. sync important files to cloud (dropbox, googledrive whatever). But be aware that this way you create additional door to steal your data.