Owner Of Hard Drive That Crashed After 6 Years Says It's Way Better Than How 1990s Kids Remember Floppy Disks

RICHMOND, VA — After discovering his hard drive has crashed after a mere 6 years of service, local man Tim Pruitt was still grateful for technology, assuring everyone that hard drives must still be far superior to how kids remember using floppy disks.

"I had an entire backup of my college thesis on this thing, which is kind of a bummer, but ah, technology is great," said Pruitt. "I mean, at least we have hard drives now and don't have to use those terrible floppy disks anymore. I don't really remember much about using them in the 90s, but I know they must have sucked. Everybody knows how much better technology is now. It almost never loses your data after just six years."

Pruitt later released a short statement affirming that data loss on hard drives with a lifespan of just 600,000 hours is clearly still better than leaving a file on a floppy disk, since everybody knows kids begged their parents for a $2,000 CD-ROM and still had to spend their time "torturing themselves listening to their friends whine about how they got stuck using the 3.5" disk format". But nobody but Tim has endured the heartbreak of losing his first and second drafts of a final paper on a silly little floppy.

Apple enthusiast and fellow Richmond resident Greg White said he couldn't even fathom how bad it must have been to have to wait to save homework until he had access to his parents' busy SCSI hard drive how kids these days don't understand how fortunate they are. "You young kids have it so easy these days," he said as he nonchalantly dragged his finger across the top of his Lisa tablet PC. "You're all so fortunate to not have to deal with SCSI."

At publishing time, local dad Jim Reid confirmed his son has no idea how great life is now that he doesn't have to unplug the phone line just to download a PDF.