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I recently went through a mad dash with HDDs as well, though not with RAID and I won't even bother with RAID. I have enough to manage as it is with lots of little, seemingly insigificant things breaking for no apparent reason.
Isn't it lovely how a relatively mundane task can cause Windows (any version, take your pick) to implode? My dad's computer seems to break every fifteen seconds. Most common is RAM, seems to go through an awful lot of RAM.
I just recently fixed a computer for a person. By "fixed" I actually mean made worse and then totally repaired it. They brought it in and said "Uh yeah it won't connect to the Internets?". I smiled, nodded and decided I'd take a look. After it refused to get an IP from my network, I decided to make sure I hadn't actually screwed around with the DHCP server on the router by using my laptop. Imagine my surprise when suddenly the broken computer randomly restarted, and politely informed me WinXP had died.
After frantically trying to find out what I'd done (I hadn't done anything, I swear, I only looked sideways at it!) and realising that something had gone seriously wrong, I called them up to explain that there could be possible data loss. They said "Oh noes! We have pictures of a friend's 18th that we haven't backed up! Save me!"
The end result?
Spending hours scanning the drive looking for MFTs that pointed to the files that they wanted. Every time I'd recover something, they'd go "Oh yeah I'm sure that's it." but then they'd go "Actually, while we're on the subject, we'd really like this back too..." So I had to start the process again, find another file, and recover it... and get new orders.
The worst part? Since it's a family job, they're not expecting to pay me. I wouldn't even go through this trouble for my own data! Now I'm getting rid of it, either by them picking it up, or scrapping it for parts (hey, ya can never have enough RAM on hand) and ditching the remains in a swamp or something.
I'm on holidays. Can't imagine how I would have done that, as well as uni work and the various other things that demand attention. Whenever something breaks when I'm busy, I either work around it or go somewhere else. Unless I need whatever it is I'm working on to be on my comp... then I'll take a day off. Or cry. Or both. Excellent damage control there g__day!
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