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TL;DR Lack of noises makes SSD drives bad at motivating users to do backups or use redundant storage: they don't seem to be on the verge of catastrophic failure.

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I think operating systems should be programmed to wipe out a drive completely once early in the life of every user (around age 20-ish) to burn in their brain the need to back up!

My father had the same concept in getting into a car crash early in my driving life. "Now that you have gotten that out of your system (and I'm glad you're fine), don't ever do it again."

Actually that did happen to me early. Luckily enough no harm done. And a lesson for the rest of my life.

My mom always told me that once I've fallen off horses one hundred times, I will never fall off again.

(I filed a request for a bike in my early life, so never got to that 100).

paying the premium for SSDs made me want to do backups more

I use arq w/ backblaze

Are you saying you use two different backup solutions or that you pay for the enterprise versions of arq and backblaze?

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