Disk Failure

We have a somewhat geeky television setup in our household, and at the heart of it sits our trusty Mac Mini media server. This morning I rebooted it, and it flatly refused to start up again. Diagnostics revealed that the hard drive had failed - not a message you ever want to see. Cue frantic dash to hardware store to buy replacement hard drive, and the rest of the re-installing operating system and software. Not the way we'd planned to spend our Sunday.