I learned a valuable lesson last night. The Giants game had just ended and I was talking to Max on Adium about the game and my hard drive started making a ticking noise, about 30 seconds later it froze and I powered it down.
I rebooted it and it was flashing a folder icon with a question mark in it. I decided to hop on Danielle’s laptop and investigate, it was as I suspected — a dead hard drive. Unfortunately I was too dumb to back it up at any point so I lost over 100 GB of photos, music, applications, etc. I am most pissed about losing all my music, photos, bookmarks, and addresses. I also lost all of the FTP information to this site, ugh.
On the bright side a new 320 GB SATA hard drive cost me $90 from Best Buy and took LITERALLY 2 minutes to install. The longest part of the whole process was driving to Best Buy, finding the HDD I wanted and driving home.
I learned a valuable lesson and I hope that you back up all your data on a regular basis. It’s NO fun at all to lose all the stuff that I did, and I know for a fact I will be backing up on a regular basis. This mistake cost me $90 for a new hard drive and years of collected photos, information, and music, but I learned something. Live and learn.
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You should try using a service like carbonite, it does nightly backups to a secure server offsite and is not that expensive. http://www.carbonite.com
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Greg says:
Damn Macs! LOL!
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Andy says:
A darrell give me the disk i can work wonders some time.
Andy
That does suck, I’m not well versed but I know I’ve seen adds in hard disk recovery.
Well sorry about the bad break but yea this serves a good message. I would be dead in the water if my HDD went, going to back things up tonight.
Also shocked me how low HDD prices have come.