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Re: [PLUG] Dead, unrecoverable Hard drive?
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Western Digital I didn't end up throwing through a window, and this
email was queued on and sent from an 8-year-old Quantum drive that
has never, in its lifetime, shown any sign of trouble). But I only[1]
Eight years ago drives had much less capacity and were overall more
reliable. Now we have hot rods that blow their engines once in a while.
But, now we also have motherboards with built-in RAID 1 (mirroring),
lower cost software/hardware-based RAID for SCSI and IDE, CD writers,
and networked computers as a norm. There is no reason why anyone can't
have some level or backup or redundency to protect against drive failure.
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