[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i have a psp and a 1gb stick with pics just in case of a power out. that said, how big do we really want a hard drive? how much data do you want potentially GONE?we have backups... yes WE do, but when did you start making backups... the first time you lost datafor me it was the wipeing of a 5gb hdd... at the time, that was EXTREMELY devastating, but thankfully most of it was easy to refind, and i happened to burn off most of the hard to get stuff for a friend, who never took the disc. how many people are going to have their first hdd wipe be of a 1tb+ amount?[/citation]
My first "data being rendered inaccessible" happened on a 486 with a 150 MB (MB, not GB) SCSI drive, in which, the computer itself died and the hard drive was there, sitting pretty, and unable to be put on a normal IDE drive. I recovered the data about 6 months later going to professionals because none of my friends could find a SCSI controller that matched my drive. Irregular backups on other drives and other computers came since then. Losing a 10 GB and 60 GB drive a couple of years later was like: meh, their time had come.