I used to sorta kinda back up. Every once in awhile I would think “jeez I should do something about all that data” and I sometimes would.

But lo: The mac. It never breaks. Ever. Nor has a hard drive ever failed on me. So I got lazy.

Yesterday my 750GB Barracuda stopped mounting. Worse yet, it doesn’t appear even register on the bus. Not even spining up as far as I can tell (Though its hard to tell on a G5, which has enough fans to levitate the 50lb box)

This puppy has all my burned music, iTunes purchases, TiVo downloads, pictures, design portfolio extras, the works. I think there’s about 300GB or so worth of stuff I really want. More than is convenient to back up so I never bothered, because hard drive failures happen to other people.

Drivesavers wants $200 if they are unable to recover it, and a range from $900-$3500 depending on what they can recover (’/m assuming this is about $1/MB for recovery. Ouch.)