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An old Ars Technica article about the 5 stages of hard drive grief and failure
If it hasn't happened to you, it will catastrophic hard drive failure. This …
The last seven months I have been doing data analysis and running my computer about 12 hours a day, and even with a decent chunk of memory, the drive has been taking a beating. After a few minutes, I look up from my darjeeling and bread with marmalade (I am not actually British) and the book I am reading, Robert Alter's new translation of the Pentateuch, in which I have just started Exodus (really). Suddenly everything makes sense, the weirdness is being caused by hardware, rather than software failure, thus letting my computer rest between reboots earlier actually was somewhat reasonable.
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