Storage price war

Some of the larger chain stores like Dick Smith Power House, Big W and Office Works seem to be joining the digital storage price war. For external hard drives at least. Things have heated up so much that they are even out pricing MSY Technology the bargain shop frequented by any tech geek worth their salt all around the country.
All of this spells great news for the consumer. Except you can’t help but feel a little miffed when you see the same thing but cheaper in a junk mail catalogue 3 days later. In the fast paced world of technology however, you just have to suck that up and dive in.
If you haven’t got a current back up, now is a great time to get a big drive and copy all that data.

Nag, nag, nag

All the magazines tell you to do. Your IT support staff tell you to do it. Deep in your heart of hearts you know you should do it but somehow you never get around to it. You’re not sure how so you’d have to ask someone so it’s all a bit too difficult. Well hopefully a personal story will get you over the hump

It happened to me last Thursday. Laptop full of scanned photos. Colour corrected, touched up, cropped the lot. Ready to put together something special for the outlaws wedding anniversary and it happened.

Full HD (hard drive) failure. Machine froze and on reboot all I get is a grey screen with a question mark.

“Boot directory? I can’t find a boot directory?”

It gives you that sick empty feeling in your stomach. Like the insides have dropped out of you and you’re completely lifeless. An I had a recent backup! My problem was I was over 1000km away from my drive image backup and it was a week and a half old. No scanned photos in there baby.

It’s okay. We got by. I borrowed a machine from my brother, rescanned everything, touched it all up and got the project done. But it robbed me of time that could have been spent doing something else. Not to mention building a new machine when I got home

Back your stuff up. Now. Burn media to DVD’s, archive mailboxes, synchronise documents with servers. A wise man once said, “A document hasn’t truly been saved until it exist in two separate places”

Wise man.

If you don’t know what to do it’s worthwhile asking someone that question. Drop me a line. We’ll get that backup done.