[ImmortalBeloved]

There has only been one time in my life I ever had a hard drive take a dump on me and luckily at the time my sister was dating a guy that had his own computer business and he recovered my data for me and installed the new drive for free but he's been out of the picture for years now so I think it's probably a good idea to get one. Also that was a PC. lol Maybe I have just been lucky? I always used to back up all my important stuff to disks but at this point it's just way too much data to do that. I'm talking about my PC now. But eventually my MBP will have tons of stuff on it as well and there is no way in heck I would ever pay 2,200 dollars for data recovery unless I had discovered the cure for cancer and it was on that drive. Mainly because I don't have that kind of money. lol

Anyone have a suggestion as to what kind of drive I should get? Also is hard drive failure super common with Macs? I assume there is always a chance of it with any device but since everyone is really stressing the importance of getting an external one that's why I'm asking and because I am new to Mac.