[X4U] Hard drive or hard drive controller gone (mirrored doors G4)

[Stroller]

On 9 Jan 2006, at 23:39, Philip J Robar wrote:
>
> .... Even though hard disk failures are so rare that most consumers  
> will never see one...

* cough *

Maybe I don't have an objective view on this because I see hard-drive  
failures on my customers' machines all the time. But I'd caution any  
of them that failure of a hard-drive is FAR too likely and the data  
loss can be, at the least, quite inconvenient. I mostly have home  
customers, so the most common concerns these days are the sentimental  
value of family photos and important emails related to work /  
business / employment. Data loss is rarely irretrievable, but can be  
costly & take a few days - it's not cost-effective compared to simply  
backing-up your data but nevertheless so many of us (myself included)  
are lax about that.

I have to concede that the last (and only) time a hard-drive has  
physically failed on me with data loss was over 5 years ago but on  
that basis, and from what I'm seeing in my work, I'd estimate the  
average user to experience severe data loss due to hard-drive failure  
at least once a decade.

Stroller.