[Nicolai P. Zwar]

I have a few Terrabytes of data, and most of it is very important and virtually not replaceable. Heck, even my music collection is pretty much irreplaceable. Sure, theoretically I could re-rip the largest part of it again from my CDs, and I could re-download a lot of my purchases from Qobuz etc. (though by far not all, because many either don’t sell online anymore, like Chandos, Qobuz removed a lot of titles, some companies only offer copies for a limited time, many Kickstarter files I’d have to ask Intrada etc. if they could resend the stuff to me, and so on). But ripping thousands of CDs takes quite a bit of time. Plus I’d have to retag all of that etc, no way, would probably take me a couple of years to get everything together, let alone that it would be wasted time. And that’s just the music, let alone irreplaceable videos/photos of family etc.
So I’d rather have backups. Drive failed yesterday, and I already got a replacement drive, and have most of the data on that drive re-inserted. Also, there’s still warranty on the WD Passport so it’s likely that I get it replaced as well.
Unfortunately, the WD Passport gave up on itself during a backup, so I have to now check if any albums are affected. So far, I’ve found one, Quartet’s BLACK RAIN, CD1, but I can easily insert that from another backup or re-rip a single CD, that’s no big deal.