Just lost a hdd myself and I feel your pain. Usually I just raid my server but didn't want to spend the money for my games drive. This time around I updated my server to a quad core and 8gb of RAM, and put in an ssd for the OS. Wish I would have done it sooner... But still bummed about losing years worth of collecting. In the end, raid your drives if you don't want to lose your data. All hard drives fail, it's just the way it is. Oh and stay away from WD Green Power drives. At least in my experience they don't last as long.