Twist my arm.

Donated 1/3rd. Two more like that guys or gals, and one of you needs to round up.

Tom, new drives fail on me all the time, I don't trust them until I've burned them in. I've probably warrantied a dozen drives in my life, some just click-dead when you plug them in, but some seem okay for a while until they get hot. I decided it was best to expect them to fail and have redundancy, sometimes multiple redundancy.

BDA,
Simplest is a Win7 mirror. Install two identical drives, then use Disk Manager to set them up.

Next step up is a mobo mirror (RAID 1), if your board supports it. These perform better, but I worry about the data if the mobo dies.

Next up again is a dedicated add-in card that provides RAID capability. I have one that communicates to a pair of little SanDigital 'toasters' with 4 drive bays each. I run those as RAID 10: two drives are paired up to (almost) double read/write speed, then that data is cloned to the other 2 paired-up the same way. I have lost drives from this array several times, and power supplies in the toaster boxes themselves, data survived.

Finally, I like the Western Digital 2-drive NAS boxes set up as mirrored. Slower, but you can put them in another room for disaster security on critical data; irreplaceable family photos and such. Newegg just had a 4T on sale for $280, and I see it's just arrived at my house...that'll bring me up to 36T spread over 8 IP addresses, not counting boot-drives. All of that is mirrored or RAID5, so I have something like half that in actual capacity.

Thoughts...provoked...how is there not already a Toy Story thread...?

<additional extended, gushing, encouraging comments>

Meghan, I think I heard you interviewed on Dan Savage's podcast a few years ago.
Could that be true?

Steve is even better than I imagined.

Dude. That rocks. I anticipated/dreaded the ending all along, but your resolution of it is exquisite. Quite a few minor typos and a few spellcheck errors, I think. Arguably too sexually graphic, but I realize that's kind of your thing and it offends me not at all. It does however make recommending it to other people a bit skeevy.

I, for one, would like to inaugurate a weeklong celebration of your ass in those jeans. I maded you a meme for that, but it's better without a visual cue. 90% of success is showing up, so make sure Teague shows up.