I recently had a vicious battle with a 2 TB Western Digital that quit on me.

Turned out to be a bad MBR, which I was able to re-write though DOS.

I thought I lost every digital file I ever owned.

Now I run multiple backups with RAID configurations. I will never go through that again. Also, I have started to use journaling on my HDD's, and I can honestly say that I feel slightly better knowing that feature is being used.