HD Crash

This week we had our first problem with our 2 year old eMachines laptop. Seems the hard drive wasn't being recognized. After much checking I determined it was indeed a dead hard drive. So the search started for a replacement. I went to CompUSA looking and they had a bunch of 2.5 inch drives - all out of my budget range by a long shot. The clerk (very helpful and knowledgeable) suggested that if I didn't mind off brand products they had a sale on Centon hard drives. A 60 gig unit would run me about $95. That was a lot closer to my budget so I took it home. It installed without a hitch and is up and running but the interesting thing is that the hard drive is clearly labeled as being made by Toshiba. Not that much of an off brand in my book. Let's see how long it lasts. Oh, and I institute a backup program this week - for sure.