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Baughn comments on Open thread, Sep. 12 - Sep. 18, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Baughn 13 September 2016 09:26:22PM 1 point [-]

Data recovery is a last-ditch effort that often as enough fails, and if it succeeds will only get you back kilobytes or megabytes of your most critical material. (Unless you're lucky enough that it's actually a controller failure.)

If you want to avoid disk failures, invest instead in backups.