Comments on: A Sea (Gate) of External Drives http://www.qcowboyphoto.com/2008/08/a-sea-gate-of-external-drives/ Photography and Blog. Sun, 20 May 2012 00:29:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nalin http://www.qcowboyphoto.com/2008/08/a-sea-gate-of-external-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Nalin Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:14:52 +0000 http://www.qcowboyphoto.com/?p=211#comment-41 So, this thing arrives yesterday, I randomly decide to plug it in and turn on the autobackup feature. It just so happens that it backs up my photo folders. I get home from work today to find... catastrophic windows meltdown!!! Fortunately it appears that all ~100GB of photos are safe... whew! That's why I bought the thing, I realized I had stopped backing stuff up when my photos exceeded my puny ancient 20GB external (pretty hefty for when I got it). I did not however realize that such a quantum hiccup of computing fate was just around the corner. I lucked out... don't trust that you will too. Back up your drive, NOW. So, this thing arrives yesterday, I randomly decide to plug it in and turn on the autobackup feature. It just so happens that it backs up my photo folders. I get home from work today to find… catastrophic windows meltdown!!! Fortunately it appears that all ~100GB of photos are safe… whew!

That’s why I bought the thing, I realized I had stopped backing stuff up when my photos exceeded my puny ancient 20GB external (pretty hefty for when I got it). I did not however realize that such a quantum hiccup of computing fate was just around the corner.

I lucked out… don’t trust that you will too. Back up your drive, NOW.

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