Another external hard drive knackered...almost 500gb worth of music, film and TV on there gone simply because the electric went off. At first I thought it was my entire PC and I shit myself because it wouldnt boot up. It turned out it booted up ok once the external drive was removed and it wont connect up now at all.

I know I should back stuff up onto disc, but it kind of defeats the object of having all that extra memory and buying 2 to have a back up of the same stuff seems like money wasted. I'm really not sure whether to bother with getting another one now, as they just seem so fragile.