Does anyone remember when 1TB drives became available? It is just recently that there exists such a thing generally available. And they are SATA. Do the powers that be expect us to believe that their machines are not still using EIDE? I don’t.
I managed to not lose one email or file in some 20 years of doing that stuff. It was all available even through failures of HUGE 160 & 340Mb drives. That I could heft into place using both hands. Backing up onto 6250bpi tapes… I didn’t spill a drop, as the old phrase went.
There is no excuse at all for losing that data. Well, no acceptable excuse.
But I digress.
tom