This is the way our world works, but sooner or later everything comes to an end. This happens for one reason or another. So it happened with my hard drive, which has served me faithfully since 2010. I am talking about the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12.
I bought this hard drive when I was building my second computer as a second storage medium. The concept of not keeping your eggs in one basket was always relevant, and when high-capacity hard drives were just beginning to make their march across the planet in general and Russia in particular, it was the only salvation from data loss. Backup was already slowly losing its relevance, although I continued to install special software for this purpose by inertia. But it was more for self-assurance. Judge for yourself, what kind of backup if I have half a terabyte of information. It can neither be stored nor transferred without pulling a disk out of a system unit.
So, for non-system information storage it was Seagate that was chosen. Time passed, one computer was replaced by another, that one was replaced by a third and here we are, September 2021. At this point, the Barracuda had served me for 11 years and was a month away from its twelfth year of service. Nominally, of course, since I didn't buy it immediately after making it. Still, that's a solid amount of time.
Surprisingly, in 2008, when the 11 Series 7200 Barracuda failed, when Seagate hastily put the 12 Series, not much more successful, on store shelves, I was condemned in every way for buying this hard drive. They blamed me for throwing my money away, and that I would soon regret my purchase. And who knew that a seemingly unfortunate device would last so long.
Any device I use is more than just a device. It is an assistant, a companion, a means to an end. To me, it's not a soulless piece of hardware. That hard drive helped me to write two diplomas, stored a lot of moments from my life in the form of photos and videos, witnessed both good and bad moments. So, I am somewhat sad about the fact that there was a failure.
That computer it was plugged into was bought already assembled and there was a hard drive, the Barracuda was going as a backup, to store additional and non-system information. And fortunately, no important, archival or working information was on it, so I'm not too worried about this and will unlikely to restore it.
Sincerely, Arik Taranis.
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