Backup your hard drive

Hard drives fail, it's a fact, so why do so many people still get caught with their pants down when a hard drive fails ? I still think it's the superman theory, we all like to think bad things happen to other people but we're like superman, bad things won't happen to us.
Ok so lets back up to the backup, it really isn't hard, and there are a number of different programs that will almost do it for you. Clickfree is probably the easiest I've ever used, no fuss no learning how to do the backup, just attach the backup drive to your network and follow the instructions. If you're rockin windows 7 it gets even easier still, windows 7 will walk you through a backup almost as easy as Clickfree.
Now, the reason for all this madness, In the past two months I have had the misfortune to have known two people who did not backup their hard drives. Both of these people had a ton of information on their drives that they desperately needed back. One I was able to save and get the info out of it. The other wasn't as lucky and he is still to this day waiting to see if he can retrieve any of his children's pictures back. He has sent his drive out to Ontario and has agreed to pay 1800 dollars to have them try to remove the platter and stuff it into another drive so he can get back the memories he has lost. Ive been in his shoes once before, and let me tell you, when you realize you just lost all your family photos it's a very sick feeling.
There are other ways to keep copies of files. My wife and I both have a laptop now and with today's huge hard drives we decided to make each other the backup destination. My laptop is backed up on hers, and hers on mine. Also my sons computer, which is a desktop, had room for an extra drive so I installed one with a full terabyte of space. So now when we all back up our systems we send a copy of that backup to that internal secondary drive. Now I know this all seems a little paranoid and maybe I'm taking it to the extreme by backing up onto two separate hard drives, but I've been caught once by this and I wasn't kidding when I said it's a sick feeling when you realize you just lost all your family photos, all those memories of your kids growing up.
Protect yourselves, back up your hard drives, hard drives fail.