Melrick

True.  Touch wood!

Welcome Back.

Thanks.  Good to be back.

Seriously… I’d be pissed at the shop for not checking both HDs thoroughly.

Damn… sorry Melrick. From bad to worse

If you can, backup your data.

I generally find that when a drive dies, it dies, about the same SSD/HDD.  Should be doing backups all the time, regardless of drive type.  Especially true with the ransomware going around.  I've not had an SSD die, but my closet has plenty of dead HDDs.  YMMV.

The daft bugger lost everything on his SSD when it failed (heat), but I’ve been able to pull files of failed HDDs many times now, most recently with the Spawn’s HDD. If I ever use an SSD, it will be for things I don’t mind losing, like game files. I’d never keep all my stuff on one HD anyway, but still…

Then again, I still miss DOS.

On windows, I use UrBackup to my NAS.   In Linux, it's a periodic rsync to a local HDD (cron job).  But I'm otherwise on SSDs.

And I was right, not a wink of sleep last night.

I’m sorry you didn’t get to sleep. I will admit, in the heat of our summers, I do enjoy my air conditioning at bedtime, which is really the only time I want to be cold.

Yeah I much prefer things to be cold at night.  Oh, and that was a record high temperature last night.  At least tonight isn’t quite as hot.