I would like to think that I run a fairly well organized reliable configuration for my main production machine and for the last four years things have been mostly stable. Sure I had a blow out of my video card a couple of years ago, but I wasn’t really worried about my data then. I run a nice Mac Pro configuration that I have updated over the years. A 240Gb SSD boot drive that makes things nice and quick. A 1Tb main hard drive that just held my user folder and a 250Gb time machine disk that kept my important stuff backed up. I am a Dropbox user so all of my documents are really stored in the cloud and I use IMAP email so they are stored in the cloud as well. Yea cloud…
So there it was the dreaded spinning beach ball…