"We are gathered here today to say goodbye to a dear friend.." Nah, how corny would that be. Still, it’s true, I’ve had yet another harddrive failure. This time one that hasn’t been used much in the last 6 months. In the last two days it was failing spontaneously and then giving lots of disk errors upon reboot. I ran Maxtor’s diagnosis tool and it said the drive was dead as a doornail.

I shouldn’t protest too loudly, seeing as I got it for free. But it reinforces the old saying: "hardware sucks".