Backup your drives
So I should be sitting here working but my main picture drive decided to have a major heart attack & die on me. Currently running chkdsk and every segment is unreadable. This drive has around 6 years worth of pictures on it and some other random documents I need. It is backed up, but can you imagine what that would feel like to lose it all? And just in case you’re reading this & think it wont happen to me. Maybe it will, maybe it wont, but it wouldn’t hurt to get an external drive & do a copy/paste once a week would it?
I also have, in addition to hard drive backup, all photos and documents uploading to Google Drive. So they are always in the cloud. Very cheap too.
Good idea, I also have backups off site, not in the cloud but at somebody else’s house, the more the better!!
I couldn’t agree more.
At one time I started to back-up and archive to DVD but the subsequent access times for files is/was dire – so when I need to expand my storage again it will be to hard drives.