[Dave@Perfectnotes]

Thats a fair price if the drive was so buggered it had to be rebuilt.. but sheesh that must be one hell of a hard floor. I would not have expected that much damage.. I would expect to manage to get the drive to spin up.. in which case I would have thought maybe about $600... depending.

Or maybe I am really cheap.

Remember how important your data is too you is how seriously you need to take up backups. If your data is the only way your can tell where hundreds of thousands of dollars are then treat it a lot more seriously than if its just a few days work (unless hundreds of thousands of dollars are just a few days work) If you are totally out of business without it.. then back it up to a hard drive.. back it up to carbonate and back it up to something else as well. Have 2 complete copy's close enough to current that you can manage with them. If you have a backup, restore plan.. have actually tested that restore works. Make sure your copy's are at different physical locations. And maybe not the other one of the twin towers. Rumor says a lot of companies stored their backups in the other tower. Be bad if your online backup was stored on a backup provider that actually was in your office building, but stranger things have happened.

If your data is not that important.. then fair enough. But you need to have a realistic appreciation of its actual value. My brother cannot be convinced to back up 20 K of outstanding invoices. But he sure understands that if his wife loses her digital photo albums his life is over. They are backed up