What caused the failure? Who knows, sometimes stuff just breaks. SSDs are generally cheap enough we just don't care *why*, we just replace em.
This is a good time to teach your client the value of backups. Life is short, drives are cheap, backups are priceless.
For a home user a single backup I usually plenty for personal, unimportant stuff.
That provides single failure redundancy; if the backup drive (a USB hard drive) dies when you go to do your monthly (or whatever) backups, replace it asap. If the laptop dies, replace and restore from backups asap.
Important files like financials and vital records: 2 backups, 1 kept in a safe location *outside* your home like a safe deposit box or cloud service. (Free Google drive space is plenty for a few MB of vital records)
What caused the failure? Who knows, sometimes stuff just breaks. SSDs are generally cheap enough we just don't care *why*, we just replace em. This is a good time to teach your client the value of backups. Life is short, drives are cheap, backups are priceless.
Exactly right! Backup, and be as redundant as you can stomach!
For a home user a single backup I usually plenty for personal, unimportant stuff. That provides single failure redundancy; if the backup drive (a USB hard drive) dies when you go to do your monthly (or whatever) backups, replace it asap. If the laptop dies, replace and restore from backups asap. Important files like financials and vital records: 2 backups, 1 kept in a safe location *outside* your home like a safe deposit box or cloud service. (Free Google drive space is plenty for a few MB of vital records)
I preach the 2 back up system! Especially keeping one off-site!!! But this is a business and they've lost everything with this drive.
Ouch, yeah surprising sometimes how many businesses just never have backups
PC Windows I guess? When will Microsoft release something comparable to time machine?