A lesson in hard drives

They die sometimes.

I’ve always had a separate partition for my OS and storage, having learned the hard way.

But when the drive itself dies without warning, that, it turns out, isn’t enough. From now on, especially given the relatively low price of two hard drives, I’m going to sacrifice the space for a mirrored RAID array. $200 gets me 2 TB, and I think I can safely enough split that and do fine. Alas, I can’t recover the data that was lost, now that this old drive won’t read to begin with.

RIP Maxtor DiamondMax 21, aka Reactor.