We have all been there ; we're working on that big contention for our finals, we are doing the finishing touches on that large project thats sure to get you that promotion, you are making the final edits for that customer who is going to literally hand you a burlap bag with a money symbol-when it happens. It could be a drive crash, a power surge, a tremor or a direct slap from God I do not know-but all of your work is gone and you did not back it up. If you haven't begun to feel that wave of icy shock and fear, then you have got to prepare-because what will you do when it *does*? I remember years back, I was finishing my last project for my 2-D advertisement class, merely a silly old timey rhetoric war poster. It was raining very heavily and the thunder was getting louder, I saved my project under a few separate titles but I wanted to have a backup-just in case. I put my USB memory card in and did another quick save-literally a second before we had a brown out / power surge.
That 2nd of darkness felt like a cold, numb, frightening century. When the light came back on and my computer began booting up all I could do was pray that my final was there and any damage wasn't . My final was on my PC, one of the saves anyway. The final was still intact on my USB, but half the other files were corrupted and that port was fried and hasn't worked since. The hard drive itself went two weeks later on a week after I handed in my project. I got lucky, extremely lucky. Hopefully if it occurs again I can be as fortunate. But always 'hoping for the best' is a very dumb thing to do. That's's like never wearing a helmet on a bike and hoping you can never get hurt if you hopefully don't fall-one search on Youtube proves you will get hurt when you fall off a bike. Hilariously though, but still I am sure smashing your face on a concrete sidewalk hurts [*T].
Thankfully for those that do enjoy wearing wearing helmets while using our computers ( or making your computers clumsily wear one ), there are literally lots of options to make certain our files will be safe and backed up when the time comes. Online backup is great to store your files, however it can be costs and you are restrained by the velocity of your web and the scale of your data. If you're happy to spend the scratch, it simple and convenient and always a comfort knowing that what ever you need should be available to you at all times-as long as an internet source in close. Which naturally it mostly is, I like living in THE FUTURE.
Still, if you have got the art of insane coincidence and karma comes to a decision to say Sup? when you're backing up your info online-your doubly %$+. And doubtless awfully in need of a hug to boot.
To avoid that rare disaster you can go with the classic methodology of offline info storage, the external disk drive. Prices start for as little as under 20 bucks and you can purchase one just about anywhere, it's truthfully one of those invests you will be grateful for.
Any computer with USB or Firewire capability will see the external hard drive as a storage machine and allot it a letter to designate it. Anytime you plug it in, you basically just treat it like any normal hard drive. You drag and drop what you need, it's super simple to transfer enormous files backwards and forwards from work to home, to a friend's house, or between your desktop and laptop. It's especially helpful if you have a tendency to keep large amounts of photos, music, picture, or game files on your PC too. Just treat your external like your attic room, toss everything in there that you don't actually use or need-but your hoarder instinct is too powerful to just remove them. This way you get to satisfy your compulsion, your PC runs quicker, and you suddenly have more space to hoard more data! Or you can use if for critical stuff like I mentioned earlier, so that in an emergency your data will remain safe and secure. But I understand if that doesn't slake your desire to having floor to ceiling hard drives for your LOLcat dependence.
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