@anthracite

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

@Doephin @anthracite Yup, which is cool, because it looks like my primary drive has just bit the dust simultaneously.

@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

@Doephin @anthracite

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.

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