Save the Data..er Your files

What looks like a new toy is really a lifesaver.

My book, a one terabyte hard drive by Western Digital, followed me home from Costco the other day. It is quiet and will save my proverbial a@#. At least that is the plan.

Only 134 dollars after instant rebate, it sits 6 and quarter inches tall beside my mac. My internal hard drive has been giving off some pretty funky sounds recently.So if it does.. I will be ready.

One word of caution, all hard drives will crash and die.. its only a matter of time. While replacing the the hard drive on the IMac 20 incher is not a big deal, losing all of the movies and Itunes library on it would be more than a little tragic. Its amazing.. I let my reunion pages expire a couple of years ago off of GoDaddy, thinking that I saved them on the hard drive and pull them up when needed. Well, the hard drive died before the website could be redone.. so no resources to draw upon, no internet FTP to pull the files from.. This year's reunion website for the class of 1968, El Camino High had to be resembled from scratch and I had to relearn the program that it was written in.. Adobe GoLive. And granted, it was better.. mainly because of the advancements in technology and that we are no longer in dial up mode. Thank goodness for Lynda.com and the ability to pull info from the web to put it together. I had to rely on others to send me scans of their photos from the past reunions and strip them out of the emails and format them for the current site. All of this could have been avoided if by hard drive had not died. It was a big for that time 56 gig hard drive. But don't feel smug, it was fewer years than it would seem. if your internal hard drive is less than 250 gigs this could be you. You are operating on borrowed time.

Go out and get one of those bigger hard drives and back up your data. Or as the dental hygenist would say about flossing, only floss the teeth you want to save.. oh that is bad. Only back up the data you want to save... Sorry for the metaphor.. but only I can talk to you this way..

Saving is better than recovery...

Pat