Old hard drives

I posted here about a month ago that the old machine I'd been using had fallen victim to static discharge, but that I'd been able to salvage the drives from the box. Perhaps I shouldn't have bothered . . . today the older of the two drives started to act up. I rebooted, ran a disk check, and everything seemed okay. About ten minutes after the disk check finished, I started to get "Delayed Write" errors from that drive, and then it stopped responding at all.

A darned good thing I'd moved all the data off that drive to the newer ones!