Hard Disks

[Mark]

Whoever invented the hard disk needs to be spun around at 7,200 rpm.

So, I get some errors on my main PC's main disk yesterday. Ouch, not good. I then go to move data off of that disk. Video files get moved to the media PC, where they should have been anyway, and the rest go on a removable drive which I keep next to the PC for backups.

Then I get bad sectors on the backup drive.

Oddly, the problems I was having on the main disk have subsided (though I think they've not entirely gone). Given the age of this system I hope it's not something more serious (I'll have to do a rebuild anyway before this year is out I suspect - just preferably not yet).

I have too many disks around here and really need to rationalise - there's somewhere around 5TB of storage and somewhere around 3TB of that is in use with god knows what. Certainly doesn't make planning backups easy which would be why I rarely do them. :/