Public Service Announcement: Don’t Trust Hard Drives

A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine posted on his Facebook account that his 1TB external hard drive had failed and that it contained a lot of data that was not stored anywhere else. In particular, there was 10 years worth of digital photos. All now lost. I did have a look at the drive to see if it was something that could be recovered, but the problem was definitely a hardware failure with the drive failing to initialize

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Public Service Announcement: Don’t Trust Hard Drives