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Originally Posted by rowan
Consider how much your data is worth, and the risk of it getting into someone elses hands, versus destroying it and buying a new hard drive.
Now, after you've considered how much your data is worth, figure out a backup strategy so you don't have this situation again... your data is worth it, right? :D
Hard drives are mechanical devices that are made to fine, but not perfect, tolerances. They WILL fail, it's just a question of WHEN.
In your case I don't think I'd risk it. Consider it a writeoff and destroy the drive. Seagate replace RMAs with refurbished drives anyway, which are a pile of crap.
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Yeap..... u made perfect sense ... having my id/cc/tax info stolen would be a much bigger problem in itself ... I remember back when I worked at a bank.... I am not a crazy sob but "if I were" I could have wreaked havoc with all those SSN at my disposal.. of course I would have gotten in serious trouble with the FEDs but bank clerks are way underpaid which might be the case with some of the clerks working at these HDD manufacturers who I think would sell my info for a lot less than I would even imagine ....
Time to set my storage to RAID 1