Maybe stop using windows?
I keep hearing about failed drives, never hapened to us. And host has some 20 year old hard drives in his Win7 PC. They still work. Only thing that ever went south was RAM, probably some lightning-induced overvoltage. Computer kept crashing, turned out 2 of 4 RAM modules didn't work properly. RAM is, or at least was fragile.
Ok yeah, host once managed to break off an USB stick. You know, in the early days they were long and cumbersome for a few hundred MB. I think actually a cat jumped on the laptop and in fell down onto the plugged USB stick, snapping it in two. Don't remember, was before I was created. That data was lost for good. Wasn't too important.
