Indy wrote:Don't feel bad it took me two crashes to finally learn my lesson and now I have a Mac.
You can now get 64GB flash drives for under $40 and just one could probably handle all your pictures and emails. Music on the other hand would probably require two or three with this group.
Well guys, it isn't as easy as buying a Mac. Ask Spider. It WAS a Mac! Look, I was backing up critical data in 1976. If you want something saved, you save it. Simple. And it is NOT that easy, either. I have found the best ally is redundancy to the nth degree. Back up a backed up file? Sure. Have to mix the media up, too. Who knows what will/can happen? If you can afford at some point (we all should at some point) invest in a solid state drive to replace those mechanical beasts that WILL eventually cease functioning. Those little (now pretty big) flash drives are great! SO (what if?!) I have three of the same things written to all 3 (matched sets of 3). Yup, ESD and /or angrily tossed EMP's could obliterate those also.........Systems wide, your shielding efforts will be futile without incredible diligence and attention, technically, financially, or time-consumingly beyond most of us. And if drives were ever built for QUALITY and were actually SERVICEABLE, maybe we wouldn't be suffering so...but that planned obsolescence bs. It is bad enough we humans are creatures with a built-in obsolescence ourselves, so ANYTHING that outlives us should be almost worthy of worship. Everybody loves stuff that works.
Rock ON & Keep the Faith Redundantly and Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
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