500 GB HDD failure – and why I don’t care
Yesterday one of my 500 GB drives failed. I didn’t get a lot of warning – a little bit of drive noise one day, then “I/O error” the next – I was able to pull one folder off of it before it got worse – now all I get is “File record segment is unreadable” [...]
External backup just got faster
I’ve written before about the absolute criticality of backing up your files on a regular basis, both locally and remote. Simply put, photos are irreplaceable whether their your own or a client’s: hard drives, be they in Macs or Windows, eventually fail; bad guys steal stuff; fires, flooding, spilled coffee, drops onto concrete floors, lost [...]
