Re: [hosers-talk] what sucks

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Josh:
> 
> I don't think I've experienced a disk failure but I was running a beta
> copy of some OS software that let me accidentally irretrevably erase everythi
> ng
> on my hard drive. That was kinda not cool. I wonder if that does it for me
> karma-wise.
> 
> 
> Josh

I've had seven or eight drives suffer mechanical failure on me since 1998,
but never two drives simultaneously. That's why I back up scylla and
charybdis to each other nightly. MTBF for drives I own is about one year,
though the current crop is doing significantly better.

I also dd'd to my root partition once by accident. No physical damage
to the drive, but I was sure glad I had a backup.

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