Hard Drive Failed - Lost EVERYTHING!

[BrianG]

I'm still using a really old AMD64 (socket 754) chipset right now, but not sure on the SATA chipset - IIRC, it's on of the older VIA chipsets. I'm planning on upgrading soon, but really, it is still fast enough for what I use it for.

I can't wait until flash memory gets low enogh for solid state drives. Access time will really be improved. And no moving parts and no magnetic media will be nice.

I don't back up to a disk image; the last time I did, the software I was using had trouble restoring to my SATA RAID0 set. Besides, I like to reformat every year or so to clean out the cobwebs anyway. So, I made some backup scripts to use with MSBackup that will back up all my important files at one click and saves it to another drive with a dated filename. Works well. :)