Posted December 22nd, 2007, in: Hard Drive Drama| Technology

And when a drive goes down, it would be the equivalent of a check-engine light coming on for your computer. It would mean that you better get your computer fixed soon.

I think that would be better than this all-at-once freak-out system people like me have with a single internal drive and an external to back-up on to manually.

People that do a lot of video editing are used to thinking about hard drives as little unreliable houses of cards, but most of us aren’t.

I like the idea of a more gradual form panic, or incremental panic… “Shit! I’m getting low on Hard Drives! Better get some more!”

Of course, Solid State Drives are just a few years around the corner. Those will surely be more reliable, right?