Their USB drive was plugged into their NAS. The probability (as they found out in TFA) is very high that a power surge will knock out most of their devices. A h

Their USB drive was plugged into their NAS. The probability (as they found out in TFA) is very high that a power surge will knock out most of their devices. A house fire wouldn't hesitate in destroying both. I think "close to 100%" is being too generous. If you don't have 3 copies of your data (with at least 1 offsite) then your data doesn't really exist.