I have felt the gut wrenching pain that every computer user dreads. It is possibly the single worst thing that can happen to you. Your hard drive fails. In trying to make sense of it I liken it to a mix of loosing your memory, having a girlfirend leave you, your best friend telling you your a jerk and never talking to you followed by a swift kick in the nuts. I put some closure to it with this letter.

My harddrive,
I don’t know where we went wrong. Everything seemed so good between us. I know we have had problems with other parts of our relationship. But we got new screens and I thought you would get along with the new logic board we just installed. I thought everything was working out fine. You seemed happy.You didn’t drop hints to me like the other peripherals did, no flickering screen or odd sounds. You were purring like a kitten, happy with the changes we had made to those other parts.

Did I push you too hard? I know imovie is a pain in the ass but I didn’t think it would be the end of it…. was it too many emails always writing in the same place over and over. I am not a fan of repetition either … but that is life. I know you are only a 5400 but my eyes never wandered to those racy 7200’s. Sure I know they are faster, but I only just looked. Anything I said about wanting a faster drive was only just in jest …… Doesn’t the saying go “it doesn’t matter where you get your appetite as-long as you come home for dinner? I always came back to you.

So now that you are gone I am left to pick up the pieces. Fragments of your former self scattered in a drive gone bad. Bits and pieces of my digital life strewn all over for me to rummage thru and pick up the pieces. I took care of you …never running you on my lap, always keeping an eye to make sure you didn’t get too hot. I did everything right ….but you let me down. You have been relegated to a cheap enclosure now, no more room for you in my Mac. You are now a point of curiosity. Soon to be something we only laugh about.

I knew when I went to see the Genius that things were more final this time. He was more serious then my other Genius encounters. It was Vegas but this Genius wasn’t making any bets that my drive was coming back to me. He said things like “your just rolling the dice, it is a crapshoot revealing with every vegas’esque comment that things weren’t looking too good. He hit me with the stinger comment … like he had been down this dirty road before …….”did you back up?” Of course I had backed up, but was it enough …did I back up my email? contacts, bookmarks …..the questions raced thru my head as I pondered the reality of no harddrive and the backup being 3000 km away.

I am in a new relationship now. This one seems to be as good as you were. But there is a difference this time. Your cruel intentions have jaded me. I can’t trust another one. You have made me so wary of committing my self that I am looking for alternatives, other ways. I am not going to be a one drive guy any more. I am going to be playing around more ….thats right I am going to get around.

I am heading online into the cloud for my fix. You won’t be able to play this cruel joke on me any more. I quit calling my second drive my “backup drive” I realized that gave me a false sense of security, it became external 1. I started questioning all my relationship with your kind, you’re every where, my xbox, ipod, home computer ….i trust you with every thing that is digitally important to me. I am telling others about you. How they could be setting them selves up for a really hard fall. I am telling them names like Carbonite, and Mozy to put in their digital lexicon. They will see the light.

I hope I can look back at these days and laugh at when loosing digital stuff happened. I guess we will have to wait and see. It only makes me wonder ….what if that really big drive in the cloud goes down? See what you have made me …. I am suffering from driveus failureus paranoia.

Screw you hard drive. I hate you.

Sincerely
Scott �

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