Backup Hard Disk Crashed Today
Hard disks crash often…nothing new and today it was my turn. Backup is what every educated IT professional, business and computer users should make a habit…but what if your backup hard disk crashes? Weird isn’t it? It happened to me and this explains why one should opt for off-site secondary online backup apart from offline or on-site backup. Online backup adds an extra layer of data protection and recovery.
Well, I had a 6 year old Seagate 20GB ATA33 hard drive which was connected as a backup drive. I knew it would fail anytime…but the drive was lying around and I thought why not put it to use? I did so and didn’t expect much reliability from this 6 year old horse. Recently, the PC was taking a bit of time to boot up, probably due to the ailing hard drive. Once in a while, the PC would freeze while accessing the HDD, mainly while opening My Computer. I got an indication that it’d fail soon.
Sensing trouble, I moved off required files to the primary HDD and waited for it to give away. Though it didn’t have anything important – some music, script backups, downloads, junk…I moved the required ones in time. Quite interestingly, I didn’t hear any strange noise, etc. till the disk finally crashed. This morning, the PC won’t boot up and the HDD LED remained lighted. Now I heard the grinding noise of the head crashing on the platters…you’re dead now my old friend.
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