Many years ago we discovered that hard drives can be run in RAID configuration to avoid failure wiping out data. Bad drive runs happen. They’ve been happing a

Many years ago we discovered that hard drives can be run in RAID configuration to avoid failure wiping out data. Bad drive runs happen. They’ve been happing a LOOONG time. If it’s important, dupe or raid. Otherwise, expect to lose the data. It’s just a matter of time. Lots of film and audio gear has a double recording option for just this reason. I’m sorry the author has to relearn this lesson the hard way!