He was installing Arch.
/s in case
While 4 to 5 times doesn't seem a lot, I was able to get back to full speed within two hours of my drives failing resulting in almost zero downtime.
I treat my machines as if they were disposable. Ready to be wiped and reloaded or forgotten on the bus at any moment.
Just the part where I refer to it as easy was supposed to be sarcastic, I suppose. I don’t expect everybody to want to put that effort out.
I think it was Debian that introduced an option to scan all the floppies before starting. I never went back.