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To: Don Green who wrote (96941)	6/12/2017 2:10:36 PM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

I did not have any failures in the 80's, but I had a couple in the 90's but after 2001 to present day thats the majority of hard drives failed in notebooks and desktops as well as USB external. I had about 5 USB drives fail, 1 Maxtor,2 WD, 2 Iomega. On my work machine Dell Inspriron 4100 notebook back in around 2004 the drive started making a clunking sound, I ran the diagnostics and it failed. I contacted a computer repair company and they were able to clone the old drive to a new one in about 2.5 hours from the time I dropped it off and picked it back up, I was back up and running. That was a critical work machine that I could not afford any downtime on it. The drive that failed was an IBM drive. Not long after the second hard drive in that computer died, I store photos on it. It had 2 hard drives. One was removable.