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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

The likelihood of catastrophic unrecoverable failure of a storage device is proportional to the square of the difficulty of recovering the lost data.

LoL!

I would also factor in the importance of the last item being worked on multiplied by the inverse of the time between the failure and the deadline for completion!