Second Hard Drive failure - What would you do going forward?

[worzelGummidge]

I have just gone through this in the new laptop.

I decided to stick with the old style HDD and not SSD's.

Main Windows HDD backed up using Acronis or something else.
Spare HDD in laptop case with a full image of the same drive. Thus if it fails then just put in the new one.

Data is on the separate internal drive in the DVD like caddy.

Data backed up separately using a DOS batch file using xcopy.

Four separate data backups. Lots of OS backups.
backups in separate properties.

RAID was not really an option for me due to space limitations for two drives.

[Platypus]

In the end I replaced the drive with an SSD. An expensive 1TB SSD. But I'm looking forward to absolutely no failures ever with it, after the guarantees offered by other posters in this thread

Look at AllwaySync instead of xcopy - it's (one of) the backup tools I use.