Portable Hard Drive Malfunction

[MakersDozn]

(02-23-2014, 07:15 AM)nats Wrote: frustrating! guessing you're not believers in cloud storage?

Well, we are now.

We use box.com at work. We also have a free personal account there, but we haven't used it that much. You see, we place a high value on iterations, and we want our primary copy of any file to retain its original Date Created and Date Modified. If you upload it to the cloud, those dates change.

So the compromise is to have the external hard drive contain our primary copies of the files, and the cloud copies are the backups. We can't be picky about iterations if it means risking data loss. Better to have a backup than nothing should our primaries disappear.

Speaking of which, our FOO's external drive did still contain their files, but the Geek Squad guy said that they were all corrupted. So we had him wipe the drive.

Our father and brother weren't upset about the loss of emails, etc., but we were. We take pride in our organizational skills, and in the tech skills that we do have. If we lost our files, we'd be PO'd beyond belief. But our brother, ever the optimist, simply said, "We'll get more emails."

So we registered a free Box.com account for our FOO, and we plan to upgrade our own account to pro. That will get us 500GB, which is our preferred capacity for now.

   

And we also got two new Seagate drives, one for us and one for the FOO.

Thanks,

MDs