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I was about to swallow my words yesterday, after one of my highly touted HDD disks failed to read or write at faster than a few kb/s.
Ran fsck, ran fsck again, still no dice.
Our data is still in a state of migration (the last guy I took over from was of the opinion to distribute data across multiple drives, without any knowledge of file duplicity -- I'm of the opinion of keep everything in one place, and back that place up) so I had not made a backup of this particularly important disk.
At this point I started contemplating the merits of flash drives, and began to question lots of things.
Turns out: the USB port was broken. I switched to the back, and everything worked fine.
Making a backup as we speak,
I sometimes argue, that you cannot test software. You always test the whole stack: case, printed circuit board, power supply, firmware, gateware, cables!!!, connectors, chips, clock circuitry, reset and poweron magic, cpu and other controllers, and finally software too. It can take a long time to even consider that your stack is broken somewhere else. And always use sunscreen (and backup) :-)