today something rather unfortunate happened when i turned on the computer: my second hard disk drive had died. it didn’t crash or made strange noises, nope, it died silently and is no longer recognized neither by the BIOS nor the maxtor diagnosis tool. well, that sucks of course because the drive contained all my personal data like documents, images, mp3s and other stuff. luckily i did my last backup at christmas so not too much is actually lost and — being paranoid as always — my phd thesis is save and sound on the server overseas. somehow i anticipated that to happen because the drive in question was manufactured in 2002. it’s not the first and not the last time a hdd failed.
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WOW. RIP Drive 2. YOuve inspired me to do a backup mañana.
Whew! That’s a good thing! What kind of system do you use to back up your hard drive? I’m thinking of investing in something like that as well.