Had a striping raid array go bad one day. Lost an allocation bit on one of the drives. Experts say no-can-fix! A company in Chicago said send us the drive's along with 3K and we'll see if we can get your data. No guarantees!!! I lost "some" stuff over a 3 month period where I did not do a back-up. Most things were copied to CD's, and the CAD data for the two gantry robots I built, the customer had a copy. Huge annoyance tho!

Reformatted the drives and they worked perfectly. Still have them, but don't use the puter any more. Power supply took a dump.

My hard drives are cloned and have a Thermaltake gizmo. Plus a half dozen portable hard drives that I religiously copy stuff to.

Was going to post a link to the unit, but had a warning of a Trojan being blocked.

I logged in this morning and was reading the thread Cecil started about the upcoming Aquaculture conference, and got a warning about some malware being blocked. This site was the only thing opened this morning. I am seeing this more often going onto mfg and vendor sites.

Only cloud stuff I do is with Autodesk where I have very large CAD files I need to send to a customer that is too far away. Most times, we just give them a thumb drive.