
Have you ever lost photos or other files because a hard drive or an SSD failed?
I have…and it’s no fun.
I spent literally months scanning old photos that my dad took when I was a kid (he was an avid photographer) and I had over 1,000 photos scanned when my hard drive failed catastrophically.
My hard drive also contained all the source code for my astronomy software that I’d spent over a year coding.
All gone to digital heaven.
Now I did have backups of everything on another hard drive so I thought this wasn’t so much a catastrophe as an inconvenient pain the ass.