Christmas Miracles Do Happen!
Added 2018-12-22 21:43:53 +0000 UTCFinally out of no where, we plugged it into a 2010 iMac and it read the external drive! Right away all the files from the external drive were moved over in a big heap onto the desktop of that computer. We are quickly backing up that computer, than will save that data to another drive and move it over to the "Art" computer. All of our records, files, backups, and personal photos were saved (at least we think). We're all super relieved and are super happy our 2017 Seagate 3TB drive had just enough life to finally appear on that iMac and we saved the data.
To combat this from happening in the future. We have purchased a new Western Digital MyBook external drive with 4TB of space. We had to rely on a very very old Western Digital 1TB drive to save our contents, and that device is about 12 years old! So based off that, we think they are pretty reliable. We also still have another 8TB Seagate external drive. This will also be used to backup our computer.
We will also be looking into a Cloud service such as Carbonite or SOS or something... Currently taking advantage of Amazon's Cloud for Prime members since they allow unlimited photo storage (which is very helpful and a good start.) We will also start saving files on the computer instead of relying just on external drives.
So in short, we will now have 3 different places in the very near future to save all our data. A computer and 2 backup drives. Plus as mentioned possibly a cloud service.
You guys were all so helpful! Like a bunch of techs jumping out from every corner giving us great advice. If you have advice on good external drives, or a backup cloud service, let us know!
We're so happy we got all our future Adorkable episodes including our Christmas week stuff. Really thrilled to have all our past ones too. And real thrilled to have everything else we had on those drives. Christmas miracles do happen!
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My only dislike about Cloud stuff is they have access to my stuff. If a hacker was good enough, they could access my info... and I don't like that. Who knows what horrible deeds they could unleash with every raw file of Adorkable Twilight!
2018-12-23 20:51:23 +0000 UTCThat would stink having to tell them that. Only they know what memories they possibly lost... or inappropriate things....
2018-12-23 20:50:45 +0000 UTCGlad it worked out. :) The old saying for data backup used to be "3 different media in 3 different location" (i.e. store your data on 3 different types of storage, and put them in 3 different locations), but these days if you just used a Cloud service, they would technically be doing that for you. ^_^
kallenin
2018-12-23 06:28:17 +0000 UTCI am glad you lucked out, When i worked at Be$TBuy in the nerd squad i had a lot of people bring me dead extrtnal drives or there laptops and i had to tell them the files are gone.
The Fish
2018-12-22 22:33:28 +0000 UTC
