Normally at StarterTech we don’t delve in to the normal blog style posts where we relate personal stories, but this was just too odd not to.

Just two days ago we talked about making backups of your system. I was prompted to write that piece by my having just signed up for Backblaze, and I was in the process of backing up my system. As this is a long process, even two days later I wasn’t done and… my laptop hard drive failed today. Completely dead, as in a new hard drive is on its way to me.

So, with this in mind, it seemed appropriate to mention it to you all again that it really does happen without warning, and you should always be working to backup your system,