Is it really that hard to keep your important data backed up on an external HD? Sync up yer loadz drive with the external once a week and then if either one dies, you just copy/paste the good stuff back onto the new one (after a fresh OS install if it's yer comp drive). I format once every-other month (for that brand-spankin new feel) and use this method to restore. Yeah you have to reinstall yer programs and games, but how many games do you really need installed at one time? Keep the isos and install only what you need.

"The word “cloud” is sometimes overused in IT" = Understatement Of The Year

So who's to say that the only preserved drawings we discovered were from a Master Artist of the time? What if it's the random scribblings of a child or not-to-artistic adult even (If you looked at my wall scrawlings, absent carbon dating, you would also think they were created by a less-evolved species)