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¿Question #4529?
Lord_Prussian: How many hard drives have you had crash on you?

pricero1: Only one - touch wood / knock on wood.
wernervoss: 1
MarsCreed: 1
MartinWin: 2.
Felimid: Enough. To learn that I shouldn't just shut down a computer before going on vacation (away from home), but also to unplug it.
tankexmortis: Just one, but she was pretty cute and I think something might have come of it if I had been aware at the time... Oh, crash! I thought you said "crush."
Woelf: None
Spirit of 70: None.
shinbo: One for now
Chris Goodwin: One so far, knock on wood.
Chris Page: I lost track. Though my worst crash was when in Windows '95, I selected the "optimize disk" function, and my computer proceeded to spend ten hours destroying the hard drive in stages.
Spatulaguy: 0.
Polgara: 1
jeRm!: three
sigtaulefty: 1 at work. Was not a good time
SultanSevy: Only 2 in well over 25 years of computing.
Evonine: Only one a straight crash... had one fall to bad memory, and another one was victim to lightning storm.
cmchavis: more than one
Ammianus: noe
fordescort79: None - touch wood!
koiyu: 1
El Hidalgo: None yet...
KrisVerbeeck: 4
ZeroZilla: Two, but my father was responsible, with his tinkering, in both cases.
Wes Robiinson: 2
zelador: None! (Knock on wood)
Rliyen: 2
DHEK: Just 1 out of I think 6 or so that I've owned.
Tina and Steve: too many to count
ZiggyZambo: none
Harlan: three so far
Nekura: 2
Thesp: 3.
greglios: None that spring to mind.
ralpheous: almost all of them.
dmomo: 0
Cristina: two
SisyphusX: Two.
dietevil: knock on wood, none
moyet: 3
FrozenHoHos: My own drives: 1, in my professional career: 100's
fFish: one.
starbug: Gah, two -- both total mechanical failures. One was caused by construction dust. I think the other was just age.
Gecko23: 6
Loquutus: 1 or 2
Quest22: 0
Teriyaki Donuts: Well, one that I'm working on crashes 2 - 3 times a week. Imagine that!
skrutsch: none, but I had three Zip drives die on me
peacmyer: Two or three.
bigbadsteve: too many
chriskl: 0
SgtTodd: None, but then they don't tend to fly near here.
xscape: zero and counting
JCooperofCharity: 2...0 totaled
chrisisapimp: none
POvidiusNaso: One.
SteveK2: 2 (23 years apart!)
Jim_P: 2
djlg: None. (I tend to upgrade them before they die.)
Dorque: 3. Stupid computers.
jttm: Probably 6 or 7
GrandpaDave: 1
CDRodeffer: Five or six.
skelebone: I've only had one that's gone totally down before I took it out... heads were clacking, so I decided to move data before something bad happened.
chaddyboy_2000: 0.
Spielfreak: enough
CortexBomb: Crash? Or die? Crashes are just a fact of life, if you're talking failure, only 1
Lord_Prussian: 3 I think, maybe more