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5 MB hard drive in 1956
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The real world failure rate of single drives is just too high. A second drive makes bad days tolerably rare.
I'm down a lot longer while I pull everything back down my internet connection from the cloud than I am stuffing a new drive in an enclosure and letting it re-silver in the background.