Rob’s Tip of the Week: Back Your Stuff Up!
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while. Make sure you back up your important files! Maybe even backup your medium-important files.
Can you imagine if you were almost done recording an album and your hard drive died on you!? Can you imaging losing all of your digital photos from the past five years?
Two months ago, my notebook’s hard drive died on me. I lost lots of stuff. Nothing super-important, but it was still painful.
So take some time and think about what you need to backup on your computer(s) and then do it!
For your super-important documents, I’d recommend getting some off-site storage on the internet. For everything else, get an external hard drive and schedule your backups!
One final note, when you get an external hard drive, get one that lays flat horizontally, not one that sits vertically. The vertical ones get knocked over and break. Over the past five years, I’ve had two die this way. I’ve been pretty happy with my LaCie 500 GB Drive. The 320 GB version also looks like a pretty good deal.
