Why You Need to Back Up Your Files and Data Every Week!

Greetings,

Today I am blogging about a real life situation, and an important lesson in protecting your data files. Yes, that's right you need to be backing up your files, and data on all your portable hard drives, flash drives, and hard drives. What do you do when you have numerous important files (close to 40,000 files) on a 500GB portable hard drive that you have accumulated, or created over time and all the sudden, you are not able to access them anymore? Well this happened to me.

I recently purchased a 500 GB Western Digital Passport portable hard drive, and I would carry it with me everywhere I went. One day I went to plug it into my computer and it stopped working. I could no longer access all my important data files. Well fortunately I had another 250GB portable hard drive where I had backed up about 75% of the files from the 500 GB drive. So I lost about 25% of my data. When I called, and spoke to Western Digital, they told me to send it in to them, and they would send me a new drive. I mentioned to them about my data on the drive, and they referred me to their web site. On there web site, I found numerous partners that could attempt to save my data for a premium price.

I called these data saving partners and they want to charge anywhere from $750 to over $2,000 to try to recover the data. One partner told me that they would be charging me $149 an hour. I elected to recreate a lot of the files and data. Due to this experience, I recently purchased a 1 TB External hard (Toshiba 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA Desktop External Hard Dive PH3100U-1EXB) drive for about $110 that sits on my desk, and every week I back up all my files on my current 250GB drive. You never know when your external portable drive will malfunction, and the files you have worked a long time to save will be gone forever.

The prices on these portable hard drives have dropped recently, and I am now finding that the protected cover on these drives are made of plastic. Any type of bump or movement on the drive could make it malfunction. So be careful when you go to purchase your new portable hard drive, and make sure you get one that has a metal casing around it. You will pay a little more for it, but in the long run it will be well worth it. I would recommend purchasing the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini 500 GB, 320 GB or 250GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive. I have been using the 250GB from Maxtor for over 1 year, and have not had any problems with it. I am about to purchase the 500GB external hard drive soon. Hope this helps you out when you purchase your external back up drive to protect your files, and data on your portable hard drives or flash drives.

Next week, I will be blogging about how to find free Microsoft Office Power Point, Word, Excel templates. Let's say your boss wants you to create a professional presentation for the staff. Where do you go to find these professional templates? I will share with you where you can download these templates for free! Don't forget in April I will be sharing with you how to use the new Flip Digital Camera software to make your own movies. See you next week.

1 Week to 5,000,000 Hits

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It's amazing when something goes viral, that a lot of people find out about it, and all the sudden it spreads like a wildfire. Of course it does take time of posting to gather a following on your Youtube or Teachertube site. This next video was released on March 1, 2010, and as of today has close to 8,000,000 hits. That's right 8 Million visits. The video is about everything working together in a synchronistic way, where everything goes just perfect. You can check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

I think this is one of their numerous videos that they have been posting consistently over a 3 - 4 year period. This is where they slowly gathered their following. Remember it takes time of posting videos consistently to get noticed. Unless you do something great and Hollywood picks it up. Yes, it really can happen. If you have not done so you can see a post I did where a video post was noticed by Hollywood Directors and Producers and someone got a nice pay out. You can check it out on the post I did back in December ,27, 2009. I have posted the video in two froms, one off of Youtube and the other posted on blogger.

Ok, today's blog is about a cool web site where you get pictures by spinning a galaxy. That's right, if you don't believe me, you can check it out yourself at http://www.taggalaxy.de/ You can simply type in the tags that you are looking for and you will see a galaxy with a sun and various tags to limit your search. Then you will continue to see more planets with tag words that will help you narrow your search. With the mouse, you can spin the planets and move them side to side, or up and down. It's pretty cool. Here is what the galaxy looks like when you do a search on Spring BreakMost of the pictures will come from Flickr or http://www.flickr.com/ a picture hosting web site. Anyways once you have found your globe with pictures you can click on it and spin it. Pretty cool. Alright, next week I will be sharing with you the importance of backing up your hard drive. What do you do when one goes bad and you have over 250GB of data and files on it and you have not backed it up? Yes, you can pay to recover it, but how much are you willing to pay? I will tell you about that story next week. Do not forget in April, I will be blogging about the Flip camera software and posting step by step pictures on how to create a movie using the software. Take care.