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Here's how I replaced an old desktop PC with a small-footprint workstation to serve as a central repository for my most important files and applications for my home. And because I'm not the most elegant person in the world, this sort of computing how-to involves a power tool and some masking tape.

Keep your cloud backup in case of true disaster, but also keep as much around locally as possible. The most likely issue you face as a computer user or your family's IT tech is a busted or corrupted hard drive, and the more you have locally the faster you can recover and not feel the data-loss-nausea that I had for most of the last fortnight.