[Reid Kistler]

Lost 2 old MicroScience 60MB (yes, MB....) RLL drives.... back in the day -- failed within a few months of each other.

Fortunately, all of the DATA was backed up, either to other HDs & / or 5 1/4" Floppies....

And, of course, reinstalling the apps was a LOT simpler than under Windows!

[Reid Kistler]

Lost 2 old MicroScience 60MB (yes, MB....) RLL drives.... back in the day -- failed within a few months of each other.

Fortunately, all of the DATA was backed up, either to other HDs & / or 5 1/4" Floppies....

And, of course, reinstalling the apps was a LOT simpler than under Windows!

[asims]

I had a hard drive crash on me once. That ticking sound is one of the worst sounds one could ever hear coming from a computer. I don't remember what I lost.

[moonwalker_v2]

Hi,
I had my terrible Hard Drive crash on my Comapq Laptop, 2 years back with all of my labour of 4 years lost in it. Since then I had developed a good habbit of backing up the important things on my external hard disks. A must have...

[andrew_lee]

I've hard a few hard drive failures of different kinds, the last several years ago. Fortunately, I've lost little important data, because I keep copies of important files on both my desktop and laptop computers. Sometimes, it was clear that the drive was about to die, and I was able to copy everything to another drive.

[Master Loon]

I lost a hard drive due to pure failure. lost a lot os stuff. didnt have a back up. I would use this as the back up. Using DVD for now

[Kacey Green]

I've lost a handful of drives over the years, sometimes they were harmless failures, other times I lost media, software or projects (both work and school)

[jlafount]

I've lost a few hard drives over the years. Fortunately they have been mostly inconveniences in time wasted to buy a new drive and rebuild. I've lost a few files here and there but nothing substantial

[oguime]

I've never had a hard drive crash, and do not make regular backups at all!

But I know I've just been lucky so far and I am building a WHS.

[gschlau]

The drive in my server hasn't died yet, but any day...

[firedog]

Yes, I had an "electrical event" occur just as my HD was starting to write something, and the drive got totally zapped. Simply stopped functioning immediately, and I lost all my data.

Since then I have battery backup and also keep several backups of my most important files.