Lacking that, the most I do right now is storing my most important files on two separate hard drives and manually sync once a while. Sometimes paranoia saves you big.

How are you buddy? Hope things are going great at your end.

Ironically, after this incident, my primary desktop’s hard drive partition disappeared out of thin air. I am working on some strategy/setup where you can seamlessly boot into a secondary hard drive (mirrored version of the original one) when the primary hard drive fails. I’ll share my experience to everyone once I get that figured out

Cheers,

Sad to hear about your experience. I too recently bought 1TB Seagate FreeAgent HDD recently and now after reading your article, I am thinking of buying my second one to have a double backup of some sort. May be burning DVDs for important stuff periodically is good idea instead of having two HDDs. I concur that we put way too much important stuff in 1′s and 0′s these days and if the technology remains shaky then we’re just setting ourselves up for a big disappointment sooner or later. Thanks for sharing your experience, it’ll surely make many others like me aware of gotchas around seemingly ‘proven’ n ‘trusted’ technologies…

Thanks,
Umesh
ps: remember me?! hope things are fine otherwise in your life… wish u the best!