PP Mguire
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I simply look at it as paranoia like with SSDs in the early days.
When a drive failure with out previous warnings happens to you, I'd bet real money you'll be changing your tune. And you can not deny it DOES happen.
If you continue to have this blind faith, it will at some point in time bite you on the ***. Even NASA doesn't put your blind faith in their space craft and probes. They use redundant computers and flash memory. So having a redundant backup system in place for personal and/or professional use makes prefect sense.
Have you not read what I've posted? I've had plenty of drives fail on me for the past 12 years. Mostly all WD as well, but even when I worked with my dad making 40 bucks a weekend I had a 500GB SATA Maxtor fail on me. I couldn't afford to replace such a large drive (at the time) and I was on 56k dial up. So it's not like I could download everything again. I don't have "blind faith", I use common sense. I don't keep critical info on media that keeps power to it.When a drive failure with out previous warnings happens to you, I'd bet real money you'll be changing your tune. And you can not deny it DOES happen.
If you continue to have this blind faith, it will at some point in time bite you on the ***. Even NASA doesn't put your blind faith in their space craft and probes. They use redundant computers and flash memory. So having a redundant backup system in place for personal and/or professional use makes prefect sense.