HDD and the drive dies for any reason....you're data is at risk of being LOST. That's why you need the data in at least two places to reduce the risk of loss.
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I would like to know about the Cirago CST4100 external hard drive. I am looking at a 1 TB external hard drive that I would like to get. My concerns are if it crashes, I would lose all my files. I saw that many of the users dropped the system which caused their crashes but other than that, is it possible to get a crash in the system? I also would like to use Ubuntu with the system, is it possible?
Thank you.

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