I just found out that yesterday, November 23rd, was Inernational Backup Day, a day to encourage and remind people that they should have a backup of their data. No, this day wasn’t started by hard drive manufacturers to sell more units, it’s good practice and common sense as all drives will fail. Let me type that out again so it’s clear — ALL DRIVES WILL FAIL. The ‘when’ is a huge variable; I’ve seen units 3 days old crap out whereas drives over 10 years old are still spinning.
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