>>> It seems HDDs like to fail after about 2yrs of 12+hr a day use. Boooo!
>> Amoung all the computers I've been called on to fix, I can once again
>> count the number of drive failures on one hand. (Laptops do seem to fail
>> somewhat more often.)
> 
> I'm similar; I've never had a HD fail. Run out of space, yes, even stolen, but
> no HD I've ever used has ever gone pop. I guess I'm just not a particularly
> 'high-impact' user...
> 
> I back up, of course, paranoiacally frequently. But, touch wood, I've never
> needed to restore a backup yet.
> 
> (Of course, now I've said that, every drive in my various machines will expire
> catastrophically over the next 24 hours)

Oh, I've had drives fail. Just not very often.

I would backup by data - but what exactly do you back 200GB up onto? 
Besides, most of it isn't very valuable data.

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