We’re always amused when we read of the foolish things people have done with their important information. Protecting your data, if that data is important to you, takes some foresight.

The people at Silicon.com have put together briefs of foolish things people have done to their hard drives or other data sources. The list includes:

• Formatting your drive…ten times
• Leaving a banana to rot on top of your hard drive
• Mailing your drive in for repair in a pair of dirty socks
• Dropping it
• Spraying WD-40 into a drive to quiet it
• Dropping it from a helicopter

Now…we can’t emphasize this enough…backup your data…protect your data…disaster may strike at any moment. And if it does…the services that specialize in data extraction cost big bucks.