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Your hard drive will fail and you won't be able to recover your data

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I have honestly never had an HD fail on me. I have some old 200 and 400MB Seagates from back in the 386 and 486 era, and they work perfectly as always. I have old 1-2GBs that work perfectly fine and my 20GB that I use now which is a few years old, hasn't had a single problem ever and still works flawlessly, and yes I do use it daily quite a bit. Ultima has an 8.4 quantum - no probs.

I don't think our data is at a huge risk of being lost.
 
I replace my hard drives in my system every 2-3 years because hard drive's expected life is around 4-5 years. That and I keep running out of disk space... So rather than clean up, I just keep throwing bigger drives in there 🙂

 
I'm about to replace my third deskstar drive.... no i didn't buy three.... this is the 3rd time I'm having to send it back because it died.... started with a 20gig, replaced to another 20, then replaced to a 30... i think i'm probably up to a 40gig now. This is annoying but almost like a free upgrading service.
 
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