Redundant backup is the only real answer.

All hard drives will fail. It's just a matter of when. And that's usually when you need something from that drive in a hurry.

In military and search... there's an expression... One is none and two is one. Simply put, always have a backup and preferrably, have a back up to your backup.

For my business needs.... I have 2 programs.... Billing and banking. Both backup automatically. Those are backed up to 2 additional locations. Both backup locations are "off" the computer on a removable drive and a USB stick.

I've used a number of brands. I don't really keep records on how long they run till fail.... but I have several in a box collecting dust.

I've seen a few gizmos that claim to be able to access "dead" drives to reclaim the data on the drive. I've not used those things but I did take a C drive that would not boot and configured it as a data drive and successfully got the data I needed copied to a good drive.

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