It should be easy to replace, for sure. It just makes me feel uneasy that it broke so EASILY and SUDDENLY. Who''s to say it won't happen again?
@Phorm @anthracite nothing. Unfortunately that's often how HDs bite it, it's why backups and multiple backups are a Good Idea
@Phorm @anthracite ...ouch. is check the laptop itself too, that's sounding like it took more power surgery than it was rated for or something
Actually, scratch that. Primary drive seems to be okay, and was just chewing on itself. Recovery mode scan revealed no problems and I'm back in operation with a fresh 2 TB external backing up now.
Fingers crossed. It's times like this that I sort of wish I trusted cloud backups.
@Doephin @anthracite No idea.
No real way to check that, either.