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It's been a while since I've had to deal with a drive that committed suicide. You can tell when the inner bits of a drive are acting less like a disk drive and more like a grinder, or a weed-whacker, especially the bit where the devices starts to heat up due to internal friction and the resistance load caused by needing more and more power to ( Read more... )

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What is cheaper:

1. A pair of $89 2TB external USB drives + the time to back up your data
2. Getting someone to recover most, but not all of your data at anywhere from $300-$1000?
3. Redoing the work from scratch?

Don't wait until choice 1 is no longer a choice. Back up your data today, and keep a copy offsite.

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