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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Well, I've never had a hard drive go bad on me.  |
Count yourself lucky. Hard drives going bad is a pretty common occurrence in IT. For the end users, it can be anything from an annoyance to a disaster. For the corporate storage, it's a matter of replacing the faulting hard drive before the hot spare and another drive fail (RAID 6 arrays). The most common problem is the SSD cache drives reaching their end of life but that's not really going bad and we do get alarms when 90% of write life is reached.
As the old saying puts it, the best way not to need a backup is to have one.