well you have been lucky, I for one have tried the freezer trick as well as chanting voodoo over a dead drive. Then again my first hard disk was like 650MB....and yeah they have come quite a ways since then. The last one I had fail was in 2006 i think, but the drive was old as shit. There can not be enough said about backing up data. If you don't think it is important today, ask all the guys who have lost their source code. In the *real* world hard drives do fail, and backups are the difference in an educated decision, or losing your fucking data, as with the recent tmobile snaffu, I bet most of those folks were banking on no crash too.
1 Terabyte drive = 89.99
Not Losing 8 years of Porn = Priceless
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