Well that was fun...NOT!!!

[Killswitch]

HDD in my laptop decided to trade in the busy lifestyle of a rotating-rust storage system for a quiet life of contemplation. Luckily I had some backups but even so it's taken me about 6 hours to whip my machine into shape. Now I've just got to wait for about 80GB of Steam downloads to finish!

At least I had a reasonably recent backup of my WoW folder and my music collection...ripping 400 CDs into iTunes while waiting for the Blizzard Downloader of Doom to do its (very, very, very slow) "thang" does not sound like a fun use of a weekend!

Moral of the story appears to be "take more frequent backups".

Could have been far, far worse though which is nice.

 

[Punishment]

Don't play Wow ^^

 

[old.Tohtori]

Out of misery some good, thanks for reminding me

 

[Zenith.UK]

I saw an article on the Register a couple of days ago about a 28 yr old Seagate drive.
It's the oldest working Seagate drive in the UK ? The Register

One of the comments hits the nail on the head. Old drives didn't have the areal density of drives today so they were more fault tolerant. The magnetic domains are packed so tightly on hard drives now that they are more likely to fail than old drives.

I must look into a decent RAID1 NAS box for personal files.