It happened. Everybody thinks it won't happen, at least not to them. My hard drive failed. Completely. As in not even able to see it in any recovery tools.
I was happily doing my thing, when everything froze on screen and I got a SBoD. A quick restart later and I got a terrible clicky sound from the hard drive followed by this:
We lost it all. All our photos, the most impossible to replace, our home movies from our travels, our documents like resumes etc., my side projects, the lot. The funny thing is, I have an external drive that I was using Time Machine on until about a month ago.
So now the first thing I recommend to anyone who will listen is to spend a few bucks on an external hard drive and set up a backup schedule. And stick to it.
You cannot go back to Paris and get that great photo of the two of you together again (although it would be nice).
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