Hardware Failure
I have a huge pile of dead hard disks amassed over the past 25 years, including one from last month, and I've been in the position of having a machine with a shiny new blank hard disk and a pile of backup floppies (or tape), so I guess I'm not a typical user. I have photos stored on three separate hard drives (one of which was the failed one from last month) and occasionally write a DVD for good measure to store elsewhere. It's not paranoia if...