Disaster and Tardiness
If you are the type to notice trends, you'd see that my posts here come weekly at about the same time. So this one is quite tardy, and to those who count on seeing something new in this spot at about the same time every week, I apologize.
That out of the way, I had a usual up and down week but this time, one of the "downs" manifested in the form of catastrophic hard drive failure. On the bright side, I have 3 hard drives in my computer and one is reserved for the OS and all programs installed, and it wasn't that one that failed. On the darker side, the one that did fail was my "data" drive. I managed to recover a lot of the data off of it once I noticed things were awry but of course, the folders where I kept the irreplaceable items, like my digital photos, were unavailable to me. Crap.
I dig through my "archives" and find a backup of my digital photos that must have been a year old or more. So while I did not lose everything I just lost everything recent. I also lost some other files that, while not irreplaceable per se, were a big pain in the butt to re-acquire. My beef is that all harddrives nowadays have the SMART feature which is supposed to tell you about immenent hard drive failure. So what of this much touted feature?! If by "warning" they meant 'suddenly, your data will no longer be accessible' then yes, I was warned. Bastards.
While I was a little upset, I was surprisingly calm about the whole thing. I guess I just didn't really care as much as I thought I would. (which kind of saddens me... where is the passion!?) Anyway, I make a mental note to myself, "let that be a lesson to you, make periodic backups!"
So a few days later I come across this magnificent program that actually allowed me to recover all the data that was previously unreachable! I was overjoyed. Lost photos, recovered! Yes! So of course, my next thought after getting everything back was, "Hey, I should back this stuff up." But then I thought... "Wait a minute, now that I have this program... why, I'm INVINCIBLE!"
For those of you that are groaning in the despair of blinding folly, sadly, this is just how my thought process flows. What can you do? ;)
That out of the way, I had a usual up and down week but this time, one of the "downs" manifested in the form of catastrophic hard drive failure. On the bright side, I have 3 hard drives in my computer and one is reserved for the OS and all programs installed, and it wasn't that one that failed. On the darker side, the one that did fail was my "data" drive. I managed to recover a lot of the data off of it once I noticed things were awry but of course, the folders where I kept the irreplaceable items, like my digital photos, were unavailable to me. Crap.
I dig through my "archives" and find a backup of my digital photos that must have been a year old or more. So while I did not lose everything I just lost everything recent. I also lost some other files that, while not irreplaceable per se, were a big pain in the butt to re-acquire. My beef is that all harddrives nowadays have the SMART feature which is supposed to tell you about immenent hard drive failure. So what of this much touted feature?! If by "warning" they meant 'suddenly, your data will no longer be accessible' then yes, I was warned. Bastards.
While I was a little upset, I was surprisingly calm about the whole thing. I guess I just didn't really care as much as I thought I would. (which kind of saddens me... where is the passion!?) Anyway, I make a mental note to myself, "let that be a lesson to you, make periodic backups!"
So a few days later I come across this magnificent program that actually allowed me to recover all the data that was previously unreachable! I was overjoyed. Lost photos, recovered! Yes! So of course, my next thought after getting everything back was, "Hey, I should back this stuff up." But then I thought... "Wait a minute, now that I have this program... why, I'm INVINCIBLE!"
For those of you that are groaning in the despair of blinding folly, sadly, this is just how my thought process flows. What can you do? ;)
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