![]() Mozy’s nominal price can understate the service’s actual cost. Mozy claims that subsequent incremental backups are fast as they only backup the changes. But the Internet is slow here in Thailand so the initial backup could take weeks. So an online storage scheme looks appealing. If we had a fire then I would lose the lot, period. I have the same problem that my computer, backup drives and CDs are all in the apartment. Unlimited for him is the amount of data that would have only been associated with large corporations a few years ago. ![]() This is a man who casually talks about terabyte drives. he paid US$54 a year for unlimited storage. He settled upon an online backup service called. The article describes his search for another solution. Troy Wolverton of the Mercury News had a similar experience to mine. It has no problems with CF cards which have “pin” type contacts. My SanDisk memory card reader refuses to read SD Cards and Memory Sticks – cards with “slide” contacts (I don’t know the technical term). I have a theory that the humid climate here in Bangkok makes electronics more prone to failure. Any recovery would be complicated that the whole drive is encrypted with TrueCrypt. I think it is the USB 2.0 interface that has failed, not the physical drive. I could work on recovering it – it has not failed completely. But I am human and I was learning my new laptop and getting the applications and files I use every day working again. Yes I should have made it my highest priority to copy the files once I knew I had only one copy. The drive contained many old documents and videos that are irreplaceable but not vital to my life.ĭouble failures like that are hard to plan for – I’m not a data centre. ![]() I did not lose any pictures, financial data or music. I’d been a bit tardy in restoring files from it to the Compaq and I lost a lot of data. I had good backups and did not lose anything when I purchased the replacement Compaq laptop.īut my 500GB Seagate external drive failed soon afterwards. The hard drive of my Sony laptop failed without warning in May. The article describes my situation exactly. They’re not doing so well now and have changed ownership but I liked the Mercury News and kept a daily subscription until I left in 2006. I remember when I arrived in California in the early 1980s how huge the newspaper was – especially the Sunday edition. Here’s an article from my old home town newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News “The Newspaper of Silicon Valley”. There’s no perfect way to back up your hard drive –.
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