Archive for October, 2010

Advice: Two $100 products that will save your digital life.

October 18, 2010

I’m not sure if it’s the weather, the power, or the fact that I’ve worn through the metal on my metal-body laptop from using it for 12 hours a day for the last 3 years – but I recently had a fairly major hard drive failure – my first big one for well over a decade.

Did I panic? Of course. What’s not to panic about when 16 years of emails suddenly vanish, not toe mention the client files you were working on just the evening before.

The solution is to double-up your backup. Here’s how.

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