Today was the first Black Friday I haven’t gotten up at 5 am and scurried out to the stores. I didn’t need anything this year. I wasn’t looking to spend the money that was disappearing in my bank account. Nothing to upgrade.<\/p>\n
Except.<\/p>\n
For an external hard drive.<\/p>\n
I have a Windows desktop that is in the process of being rebuilt. The hard drive has all my content as a college student. That computer failed once and I recovered it in 2001.<\/p>\n
I have a Powerbook. It has a hard drive that I replaced in the summer of 2005 when the first one failed. It has all my work from graduate school and all my personal data I accumulated since including music and photos.<\/p>\n
I have a 60 gig external hard drive with all my work from my last few jobs.<\/p>\n
Sure there are several things online\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmy portfolio website, flickr stream, social networks. They are in the hands of people that I pay to (or read adverts) to take care of my data.<\/p>\n
But what if something fails? What if something is ripped from my hands? Muggings, fires, earthquakes, accidental droppage\/spillage?<\/p>\n
Then I have nothing for a job search or to share with others.<\/p>\n
So I am seeking an additional (LARGE) external hard drive. But over and over again, my frugal inner self reminds me that I have survived this long. But there’s the little angel me on my right shoulder that reminds me that when it does happen, I would be willing to shell out $1000 to recover data without a second thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today was the first Black Friday I haven’t gotten up at 5 am and scurried out to the stores. I didn’t need anything this year. I wasn’t looking to spend the money that was disappearing in my bank account. Nothing … Continue reading