Horror Of Horrors! My 5-month-old Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 died! First was the sound of a chicken bone in the garbage disposal. Then, accompanying the following silence, was the faint smell of burning plastic and ozone. DEAD! The Hitachi was the 400GB heart of my Media Center computer. Almost half-a-tera of movies and TV shows (leached, allegedly). And no..I didn’t back it up. It was the biggest HDD on my network. How the hell do you backup half a terabyte? As I now know, with another 400GB drive. Yes the Hitachi T7K500’s are getting a horrible reputation for failures, but I can’t use this as excuse. All those hours, all those rapidshare accounts- all history.
I add this here just as a reminder to all to BACK UP YOUR DATA. Pile of DVDs, mom’s computer, another HDD (maybe not Hitachi), anything. Just get it done. Venting Complete.
