Yesterday morning, I pulled open my laptop to send a quick email. It had a frozen black screen, so I rebooted it, and… oh crap.

My 2-year-old SSD had unceremoniously died.

This was a gut punch, but I had an ace in the hole. I'm typing this from my restored system on a brand new drive.

In total, I lost about 10 minutes of data. Here's how. (Spoilers: #zfs #zrepl)

#Unix/#Linux related technologies are becoming so widespread that now you see reference to #ZFS even in hard drive descriptions such as https://www.nexths.it/Products/details/sku/WD40EFZX
Are nerds finally winning?