2009 Dec 1
So most “techies” know that all things have a lifespan, electronics especially. So if you’re not backing up your data, you will be soon (or loosing that data). My family recently had a 1TB USB external disk fail. Turns out that the “disk” was actually two 500GB disks RAID’ed together. After some investigation it turns out that DISK1 has hardware failures, and DISK2 is fine. But since its RAID’ed together none of the data on DISK2 is available.