The drive warranty does not replace the data · Proposed air date:
Faced with a period in which Dr. Dave trusts no major hard-drive brand, he asks why manufacturers extend warranties on inexpensive hardware while leaving customers to absorb the much greater cost of lost data. He imagines data-recovery insurance, then returns to the practical answer of smaller redundant drives and rotating replacements without mistaking the device warranty for protection of the files.
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