Holiday Giveaway: Win one of 10 1TB + 500GB Seagate Free Agent Drive Bundles!
I can’t think of a better gift to a notebook user than a backup hard drive that doesn’t have one. Backup drives aren’t the sexiest gadgets, but they can sure save you a lot of grief if when you hard drive goes bad or you lose your notebook. Our friends at Seagate gave us 20 hard drives to give away and in the spirit of the Holidays we’re sharing with readers of nine top technology blogs.
Winners will get their choice of either a FreeAgent Desk 1TB or FreeAgent Desk for Mac 1TB. If you win you’ll also get your choice of a 500GB FreeAgent Go or 500GB FreeAgent Go for Mac portable drive. The FreeAgent Go for Mac has FireWire 800 and USB ports comes in a silver and white design. It matches the look and feel of a MacBook. The FreeAgentGo (non mac) is much slimmer and comes in Red, Forest Green, Sky Blue, Tuxedo Black and Silver.
For a chance to win all you need to do to win is to answer following questions in the comment form at the bottom of this article.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost? Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Only one entry per person and please remember to leave your email address in the form,not in the body of the comment. We’ll pick a random winner from all the entries received by 11:59PT on Friday December 5.
You can also enter to win one of the ten hard drive bundles at these Web sites once they post their rules:
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I’m a self admitted backup freak. I use a wide variety of drives from various manufacturers, but I like how the new FreeAgents look and Seagate stands behind its products with a five-year warranty.
This is a picture of most of my backup hard drives that house everything from wedding photos to the sheet music from my high school jazz band. I keep my most precious photos and videos in at least three locations.
- I keep a copy that’s easily accessible to all of my notebooks -on one of the hard drives pictured.
- On a portable drive that lives in a Sentry Fire Safe in case we’re burglarized or the house burns down.
- At a relative’s house in case my home is nuked or Thomas Crown happens break into my home and crack my safe.
- I backup photos and Videos SugarSync, Flickr and/or SmugMug as well.
That might be excessive to some people, but I never want to be “that guy” that lost everything and shooting HD videos and RAW format images takes up a TON of hard drive space.
The reason I don’t rely more on online services for backup is because in the event of a major data loss it would take literally weeks to download all of my backups and hard drives are so affordable.
Most people don’t bother to backup their data, which leads to countless sob stories of lost baby pictures and wedding videos. According to Parks Associates, a hard drive crashes every 15 seconds and one out of five computers lose data. Their analysts say only 10% of home users are actually backing up their data.
I constantly nag my friends and family to buy and use backup drives, but they rarely listen to me. Earlier this year I forced my mom to start backing up her iMac to a FreeAgent Go. Just a few weeks later her hard drive died and we had her up and running on a new iMac just a couple of days later WITH all of her documents and photos.
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I’d probably be devastated if I lost my photographs. I just changed jobs and I miss all of my friends out east.
I haven’t lost data yet. However, my first laptop’s backlight died recently, so we’re moving its contents over, piecemeal. It’s exasperating.
I have lots of photos and personal files that I did not bother print out as there are too many. I will bevasteated if I lost them, so i am trying to get a backup soon.
Once I lost one of my MBA programe assigments that I need to submit. I had to to rewrite from an earlier copy that I saved. Lost of reseached information have to be retraced and re-written
Our desk computer just got wiped out with all our pictures of the kids, all the boyscout activities and a record toward our sons Eagle. A biography I was writing. I am not computer savii but we learnrd back up is vital.
I’d probably be devastated if I lost my photographs. I just changed jobs and I miss all of my friends out east.
I haven’t lost data yet. However, my first laptop’s backlight died recently, so we’re moving its contents over, piecemeal. It’s exasperating.
I have lots of photos and personal files that I did not bother print out as there are too many. I will bevasteated if I lost them, so i am trying to get a backup soon.
Once I lost one of my MBA programe assigments that I need to submit. I had to to rewrite from an earlier copy that I saved. Lost of reseached information have to be retraced and re-written
Our desk computer just got wiped out with all our pictures of the kids, all the boyscout activities and a record toward our sons Eagle. A biography I was writing. I am not computer savii but we learnrd back up is vital.
I have ALOT of things saved up from since I was in middle school; projects, pictures, essays, etc. I should probably back them up but have never gotten around to it..but they mean a lot to me, so I guess I would be pretty devastated.
Thank God I haven’t lost any data yet…lol – and hopefully never
I’d be devastated if I lost my code, or school work.
I have yet to lose any data, but it’s just a matter of time…
I have ALOT of things saved up from since I was in middle school; projects, pictures, essays, etc. I should probably back them up but have never gotten around to it..but they mean a lot to me, so I guess I would be pretty devastated.
Thank God I haven’t lost any data yet…lol – and hopefully never
I’d be devastated if I lost my code, or school work.
I have yet to lose any data, but it’s just a matter of time…
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Family photos, work/school documents, personal documents and my music.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened? Oh yeah. Right in the middle of my first semester of business school my computer decided to die on me. I lost a number of files resulting in me scrambling to copy class notes and to completely rewrite a number of papers and documents. Needless to say, my grades could have been better that semester.
Thanks, Xavier
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Family photos, work/school documents, personal documents and my music.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened? Oh yeah. Right in the middle of my first semester of business school my computer decided to die on me. I lost a number of files resulting in me scrambling to copy class notes and to completely rewrite a number of papers and documents. Needless to say, my grades could have been better that semester.
Thanks, Xavier
On my notebook I have two years worth of lectures from the time I spent in school in Jerusalem which are the only copies that exist and thankfully I have yet to have a data loss on my machine
On my notebook I have two years worth of lectures from the time I spent in school in Jerusalem which are the only copies that exist and thankfully I have yet to have a data loss on my machine
> What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Photos from a recent holiday, and a whole bunch of useful stuff like a web browser. (to read notebooks.com of course!)
> Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
No, but almost – I had a hdd fail (slowly) and I managed to get most of that data off, but I’m probably missing some stuff still.
> What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Photos from a recent holiday, and a whole bunch of useful stuff like a web browser. (to read notebooks.com of course!)
> Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
No, but almost – I had a hdd fail (slowly) and I managed to get most of that data off, but I’m probably missing some stuff still.
I’ve had a notebook crash… lost everything I hadn’t burnt to CDs which was quite a lot. Big Bummer!
I’ve had a notebook crash… lost everything I hadn’t burnt to CDs which was quite a lot. Big Bummer!
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
My pictures and music are backed up but what would be crushing if I lost is the program where I keep all of the notes that I have accumulated over the past 8 years. I use the notes an saved reference material in helping in security forums.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
My old Windows 95 machine has a hardware problem. Fortunately the local tech was able to recover the data.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
My pictures and music are backed up but what would be crushing if I lost is the program where I keep all of the notes that I have accumulated over the past 8 years. I use the notes an saved reference material in helping in security forums.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
My old Windows 95 machine has a hardware problem. Fortunately the local tech was able to recover the data.
Videos, Pictures & Screencaptures I’ve painstakingly created are the most painful things I could lose if my laptop hard drive died. Despite having about 3 external hard drives (250gb, 320gb and 500gb) for my desktop & laptop, I have lost data primarily because I took backing up for granted. In fact, my most recent data loss was on the 23rd where my last backup was over 1 month ago. Not cool especially as I use my laptop for work & personal work. So, I’ve pretty much committed to weekly backups now and running out of space really fast.
Videos, Pictures & Screencaptures I’ve painstakingly created are the most painful things I could lose if my laptop hard drive died. Despite having about 3 external hard drives (250gb, 320gb and 500gb) for my desktop & laptop, I have lost data primarily because I took backing up for granted. In fact, my most recent data loss was on the 23rd where my last backup was over 1 month ago. Not cool especially as I use my laptop for work & personal work. So, I’ve pretty much committed to weekly backups now and running out of space really fast.
Probably personal photos and videos are number one for me when it comes to the importance of using a back up drive. My computer hard drive recently died out on me but luckily I bought a portable drive. I would have cried if I lost it all.
Probably personal photos and videos are number one for me when it comes to the importance of using a back up drive. My computer hard drive recently died out on me but luckily I bought a portable drive. I would have cried if I lost it all.
My personal photos and my works are my precious data
My personal photos and my works are my precious data
Photos are the biggest thing I would lose, but there are also things like family history/geneology and such that would be hard to gather up all the pieces into a single place again. Even simple things like bookmarks become a pain to find and organize after a crash.
I have had laptop hard drive crashes before, what a pain. Luckily I burn most of the data to DVD for recovery, though that is done very infrequently.
Photos are the biggest thing I would lose, but there are also things like family history/geneology and such that would be hard to gather up all the pieces into a single place again. Even simple things like bookmarks become a pain to find and organize after a crash.
I have had laptop hard drive crashes before, what a pain. Luckily I burn most of the data to DVD for recovery, though that is done very infrequently.
Fortunately, essentially everything I have on my notebook is also on my desktop. Unfortunately, the converse isn’t true, though it’s mostly videos and music that can be replaced with enough time.
Fortunately, essentially everything I have on my notebook is also on my desktop. Unfortunately, the converse isn’t true, though it’s mostly videos and music that can be replaced with enough time.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Photos, Music, documents– Masters Thesis
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I did lose everything a few years back.
It was horrid. The biggest thing I lost were the photos. I was able to get the music back (lots of hours spent re-ripping CD’s). But the Photos were Gone forever- Europe pictures, friends, college pix…. it stinks.
Backups are Very important- and I do tham all the time now.
15Gb of music: ~$3000
25Gb of shows, movies, and photos: ~$500
30Gb of software and projects: ~$1000
40Gb of past emails (aka leverage): priceless
Luckily so far I’ve always managed to back up what I need before losing access to it (either through system failure or parting ways with an employer). But it is getting to the point that DVD’s are too small and my last portable drive has started getting unstable on me. So I am definitely due for something like this.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Photos, Music, documents– Masters Thesis
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I did lose everything a few years back.
It was horrid. The biggest thing I lost were the photos. I was able to get the music back (lots of hours spent re-ripping CD’s). But the Photos were Gone forever- Europe pictures, friends, college pix…. it stinks.
Backups are Very important- and I do tham all the time now.
15Gb of music: ~$3000
25Gb of shows, movies, and photos: ~$500
30Gb of software and projects: ~$1000
40Gb of past emails (aka leverage): priceless
Luckily so far I’ve always managed to back up what I need before losing access to it (either through system failure or parting ways with an employer). But it is getting to the point that DVD’s are too small and my last portable drive has started getting unstable on me. So I am definitely due for something like this.
It would be horrid if I lost all my schoolwork and college essays.
It happened once before unfortunately when my computer mysteriously ceased to function.
It would be horrid if I lost all my schoolwork and college essays.
It happened once before unfortunately when my computer mysteriously ceased to function.
1000′s of lines of computer code, days of music, and many hours worth of University related work.
Luck has been on my side and have lost nothing yet.
1000′s of lines of computer code, days of music, and many hours worth of University related work.
Luck has been on my side and have lost nothing yet.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Countless personal photographs and movies.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I’ve lost photos and school work with a corrupted hard drive. I tried for several days to recover the data to no avail.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Countless personal photographs and movies.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I’ve lost photos and school work with a corrupted hard drive. I tried for several days to recover the data to no avail.
I’m currently programming for the iPhone and I have all have my ideas and apps on my Macbook. I have too many hours to count worth of work on that internal hard drive.
I’m currently programming for the iPhone and I have all have my ideas and apps on my Macbook. I have too many hours to count worth of work on that internal hard drive.
I have a ton of data on my mac that would be terrible if it was lost.
I have:
Around 2000 photos
A large itunes music library
Many iTunes video’s and tv shows (worth a lot of money)
Many school documents
A large backup harddrive would be great
I have a ton of data on my mac that would be terrible if it was lost.
I have:
Around 2000 photos
A large itunes music library
Many iTunes video’s and tv shows (worth a lot of money)
Many school documents
A large backup harddrive would be great
I love this site from the depths of my soul.
I love this site from the depths of my soul.
Now I’ve got music and school documents on my laptop that I have to keep backed up. I’ve had my fair share of laptop hard drives crash on me and I’ve lost weeks of vacation photos, music, and school work.
Now I’ve got music and school documents on my laptop that I have to keep backed up. I’ve had my fair share of laptop hard drives crash on me and I’ve lost weeks of vacation photos, music, and school work.
I have a lot of pictures from my various trips and I would be devastated if I lost any of them.
I had a hard drive crash before. The master file allocation file got damaged, but I was able to rebuild it and recover my data.
I have a lot of pictures from my various trips and I would be devastated if I lost any of them.
I had a hard drive crash before. The master file allocation file got damaged, but I was able to rebuild it and recover my data.
My iBook G4 was stolen a little over a year ago. I lost everything on my hard drive, however tiny (40GB). I would be most devastated if I lost my photos and address book contacts of all my friends and family.
My iBook G4 was stolen a little over a year ago. I lost everything on my hard drive, however tiny (40GB). I would be most devastated if I lost my photos and address book contacts of all my friends and family.
My notebook contains so much valuable information, I can’t begin to imagine what would be the worst to lose. Most likely, my file containing heavily encrypted passwords and possibly my photos would be the most valuable. I have previously lost all this data, but after a couple days worth of work, I was able to recover my data since the issue was simply a problem between operating systems. Since then I have felt the pressing need for a backup drive but have been unable put that purchase at the top of my long list…
My notebook contains so much valuable information, I can’t begin to imagine what would be the worst to lose. Most likely, my file containing heavily encrypted passwords and possibly my photos would be the most valuable. I have previously lost all this data, but after a couple days worth of work, I was able to recover my data since the issue was simply a problem between operating systems. Since then I have felt the pressing need for a backup drive but have been unable put that purchase at the top of my long list…
I lost my MacBook in a house fire a couple of weeks ago. Wish I had a back-up of that sucker, live and learn I guess.
I lost my MacBook in a house fire a couple of weeks ago. Wish I had a back-up of that sucker, live and learn I guess.
I make flash websites and I can only afford the web space to hold the .swf files. Therefore, if my hard drive crashed and I lost the actual .fla files, I’d cry – and then spend weeks and weeks reinventing the wheel. I also make promotional videos for bands, and if I lost all of the videos, I would no longer have the final cut files to work with. I have a crappy 250GB drive now, but could really use a new one as that space is all filled.
I make flash websites and I can only afford the web space to hold the .swf files. Therefore, if my hard drive crashed and I lost the actual .fla files, I’d cry – and then spend weeks and weeks reinventing the wheel. I also make promotional videos for bands, and if I lost all of the videos, I would no longer have the final cut files to work with. I have a crappy 250GB drive now, but could really use a new one as that space is all filled.
The thing I would miss the most would be the videos I’ve made. There’s more to a video than what the viewer sees. I have *hours* of video footage that I would be devastated if I lost.
That, and all my tweaked settings.
The thing I would miss the most would be the videos I’ve made. There’s more to a video than what the viewer sees. I have *hours* of video footage that I would be devastated if I lost.
That, and all my tweaked settings.
There’s definitely the traditional photos, video, family mementos and that ilk on my MacBook’s harddrive – it’d be horrible to lose any of it, for sure. But I think even more painful to endure would be losing all of the random thoughts and ideas, brainstorms and rough drafts from the past five or ten years – since when I was in Jr. High – that have collected there from many eons of late nights and too much caffeine. They may be horrible ideas, with no value whatsoever, but I’d hate to lose them.
There’s definitely the traditional photos, video, family mementos and that ilk on my MacBook’s harddrive – it’d be horrible to lose any of it, for sure. But I think even more painful to endure would be losing all of the random thoughts and ideas, brainstorms and rough drafts from the past five or ten years – since when I was in Jr. High – that have collected there from many eons of late nights and too much caffeine. They may be horrible ideas, with no value whatsoever, but I’d hate to lose them.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Family photos, documents, my music.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Yes. I turned on my laptop and it said it couldn’t load up windows. Could only recover some data.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Family photos, documents, my music.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Yes. I turned on my laptop and it said it couldn’t load up windows. Could only recover some data.
I would be devastated if I lost my music library, my school projects, and my pictures.
One time I accidentally deleted all my videos on my cell phone. I never saw them again.
I would be devastated if I lost my music library, my school projects, and my pictures.
One time I accidentally deleted all my videos on my cell phone. I never saw them again.
I’ve been scanning my family’s old picture slides into my notebook, which date back to 1966! If I lost these precious pictures of the family’s most important moments in time, I would be devastated, along with my family. A backup drive is exactly what I need to save these memories. Don’t let these lost memories be on your conscience!
I’ve been scanning my family’s old picture slides into my notebook, which date back to 1966! If I lost these precious pictures of the family’s most important moments in time, I would be devastated, along with my family. A backup drive is exactly what I need to save these memories. Don’t let these lost memories be on your conscience!
Tip: Magnets and hard drives, NOT best friends.
Tip: Magnets and hard drives, NOT best friends.
If I lost my years of portfolio work, I would cease to exist.
I once lost 3,500 photos from a 4 day NYC photo shoot I did as a sophomore in college. It was easily my best work, gone, forever. The lighting for 4 days was perfect in every setup I did.
If I lost my years of portfolio work, I would cease to exist.
I once lost 3,500 photos from a 4 day NYC photo shoot I did as a sophomore in college. It was easily my best work, gone, forever. The lighting for 4 days was perfect in every setup I did.
I would be devastated if I lost scientific data on my computer from work. Also baby photos.
I’ve lost data before from transfers, but I think the most devastating is from program crashes that loses the last 30 min of work and I realize I need autorecovery more often.
I would be devastated if I lost scientific data on my computer from work. Also baby photos.
I’ve lost data before from transfers, but I think the most devastating is from program crashes that loses the last 30 min of work and I realize I need autorecovery more often.
I edit video and am currently making a documentary. I would be absolutely devastated if that went and 6 months of my life went down the drain.
As a writer, I lost one of my favorite stories. Gone forever.
I edit video and am currently making a documentary. I would be absolutely devastated if that went and 6 months of my life went down the drain.
As a writer, I lost one of my favorite stories. Gone forever.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Right now I have a combination of photos of the first two years of my oldest son’s life as well as the first three months of my youngest. If I lost those, I’m pretty sure my wife wouldn’t let me make any more babies with her.
Also, I am a teacher so I have all of my prepared lesson plans and materials. Its my first year teaching so these lessons are crucial. Maybe I need to back them up whether I win or not.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Since the day that my wife and I met, I’ve managed to crash beyond repair three of our computers. I don’t know how but, I did it. What that means is that I’ve lost most of the photos and music that we took or enjoyed in college. The photos from our honeymoon… gone.
funny, but your wife would be totally justified
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Right now I have a combination of photos of the first two years of my oldest son’s life as well as the first three months of my youngest. If I lost those, I’m pretty sure my wife wouldn’t let me make any more babies with her.
Also, I am a teacher so I have all of my prepared lesson plans and materials. Its my first year teaching so these lessons are crucial. Maybe I need to back them up whether I win or not.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Since the day that my wife and I met, I’ve managed to crash beyond repair three of our computers. I don’t know how but, I did it. What that means is that I’ve lost most of the photos and music that we took or enjoyed in college. The photos from our honeymoon… gone.
funny, but your wife would be totally justified
I would be devastated if I lost all my music and pictures, a lot of the pictures are only saved here, and my music would be really hard to replace because of the way its organized.
I recently lost all my favorites when switching from firefox to chrome to firefox again, and Im still upset to the day
-Dima
I would be devastated if I lost all my music and pictures, a lot of the pictures are only saved here, and my music would be really hard to replace because of the way its organized.
I recently lost all my favorites when switching from firefox to chrome to firefox again, and Im still upset to the day
-Dima
I bought a new waterproof camera recently and the picture quality is amazing. I’ve taken some great pictures of good times with friends in places I was previously too scared to take my camera. Right now I don’t have a reliable backup solution eventhough I’ve been stung twice when I suffered accidental loss and a hard drive failure (bye bye dissertation and my sisters wedding photos). Winning this competition would avoid a repeat of past disasters and allow me to hold onto my data and precious pictures for years to come.
I bought a new waterproof camera recently and the picture quality is amazing. I’ve taken some great pictures of good times with friends in places I was previously too scared to take my camera. Right now I don’t have a reliable backup solution eventhough I’ve been stung twice when I suffered accidental loss and a hard drive failure (bye bye dissertation and my sisters wedding photos). Winning this competition would avoid a repeat of past disasters and allow me to hold onto my data and precious pictures for years to come.
I have about two months worth of memories within video, pictures, and even audio recordings, it was at the Philippines where I met my cousins and even caught a palm tree with branches. I still laugh at our audio conversations we had because my camera couldn’t catch anything in the dark, it would be more than devastating if I had lost them, that’s almost a thousand dollar trip, priceless memories, and more importantly my video project down the 1′s and 0′s drain.
Unfortunately, I did lose important data, and said data it what you read above. Apparently, my harddrive got roughed up during it’s transport back to the U.S, I was editing a movie during my free time and it was going to be their priceless present Christmas surprise, instead I ended up buying expensive U.S food and candy. You should have seen their hype brought down, what really felt devastating was having to explain a surprise that was never going to happen.
I have about two months worth of memories within video, pictures, and even audio recordings, it was at the Philippines where I met my cousins and even caught a palm tree with branches. I still laugh at our audio conversations we had because my camera couldn’t catch anything in the dark, it would be more than devastating if I had lost them, that’s almost a thousand dollar trip, priceless memories, and more importantly my video project down the 1′s and 0′s drain.
Unfortunately, I did lose important data, and said data it what you read above. Apparently, my harddrive got roughed up during it’s transport back to the U.S, I was editing a movie during my free time and it was going to be their priceless present Christmas surprise, instead I ended up buying expensive U.S food and candy. You should have seen their hype brought down, what really felt devastating was having to explain a surprise that was never going to happen.
I would be devastated if I lost my trip photos and work files. Being in the IT biz, I know the importance of backing up, backing up, and backing up again. Redundancy is king, as you have exhibited, Xavier, and a great insurance policy to boot. I always use my brother for an example of the downside of trusting your drive because “it’s never failed before.” He learned the hard way, after I set him up with a backup system which he never saw fit to use, and his drive with all of his business correspondence failed, and could only be recovered by forensic specialists for a $1500 fee; a small price to pay for his valuable info, but a needless one at that.
I would be devastated if I lost my trip photos and work files. Being in the IT biz, I know the importance of backing up, backing up, and backing up again. Redundancy is king, as you have exhibited, Xavier, and a great insurance policy to boot. I always use my brother for an example of the downside of trusting your drive because “it’s never failed before.” He learned the hard way, after I set him up with a backup system which he never saw fit to use, and his drive with all of his business correspondence failed, and could only be recovered by forensic specialists for a $1500 fee; a small price to pay for his valuable info, but a needless one at that.
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i dont even have a notebook!! cant afford it , but i lost once already all my photos and music, plus my starter portfolio for designs
i dont even have a notebook!! cant afford it , but i lost once already all my photos and music, plus my starter portfolio for designs
I (knock on wood) almost never have anything on my MacBook which can’t be lost, unless I’m traveling. Digital pictures would be the most important thing, but they always live on multiple spindles until I can get them copied to our server.
I’ve lost some data, but I’m usually pretty good about backing things up.
I (knock on wood) almost never have anything on my MacBook which can’t be lost, unless I’m traveling. Digital pictures would be the most important thing, but they always live on multiple spindles until I can get them copied to our server.
I’ve lost some data, but I’m usually pretty good about backing things up.
I once lost my entire hard drive to an erasure. I had to purchase recovery software, and spent the next 2 day recovering stuff. I learned the hard way.
I once lost my entire hard drive to an erasure. I had to purchase recovery software, and spent the next 2 day recovering stuff. I learned the hard way.
Wow nice contest.Thanks a lot Xavier.
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1.What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Ans :- My most precious things on my notebook would be my Emails & tons of Text files which i’m keeping with me for years & i would certainly be devastated if they get corrupted or lost by any chance.
2.Have you ever lost important data- what happened
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Ans :- Many times.I get attacked by viruses sometimes even though i’m using pretty good security softwares.Few weeks ago i had to format two drives of my HDD because of two nasty viruses & i had to loose quite important official documents on those drives.
Wow nice contest.Thanks a lot Xavier.
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1.What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Ans :- My most precious things on my notebook would be my Emails & tons of Text files which i’m keeping with me for years & i would certainly be devastated if they get corrupted or lost by any chance.
2.Have you ever lost important data- what happened
?
Ans :- Many times.I get attacked by viruses sometimes even though i’m using pretty good security softwares.Few weeks ago i had to format two drives of my HDD because of two nasty viruses & i had to loose quite important official documents on those drives.
Once i lost my entire data because i could access to my hard drive. There were my college stuff in there and i had to redo it again so i try to recover but it didn’t happen. So winning this competition would give me two hard drive so i can backup my important data.
Once i lost my entire data because i could access to my hard drive. There were my college stuff in there and i had to redo it again so i try to recover but it didn’t happen. So winning this competition would give me two hard drive so i can backup my important data.
Like most people, I keep most of my life on my computer – videos, pics of family, important documents, resumes, etc. I’d be pretty devastated if I lost it all. After my old notebook motherboard died a year ago (stupid HP pavilion), I was able to get an external enclosure and rescue my hard drive data – phew! I’ve been pretty religious about backing up regularly ever since, but I definitely need another back up drive, since my current one is almost full.
As for lost data, I was dumb enough not to back up my work computer (I was a grad student in a lab, and it was a “general use” office computer) and one of my lab mates moved the machine to use for an experiment and of course, he dropped the cpu box – bye bye data. I was pretty cranky for a while after that……
Like most people, I keep most of my life on my computer – videos, pics of family, important documents, resumes, etc. I’d be pretty devastated if I lost it all. After my old notebook motherboard died a year ago (stupid HP pavilion), I was able to get an external enclosure and rescue my hard drive data – phew! I’ve been pretty religious about backing up regularly ever since, but I definitely need another back up drive, since my current one is almost full.
As for lost data, I was dumb enough not to back up my work computer (I was a grad student in a lab, and it was a “general use” office computer) and one of my lab mates moved the machine to use for an experiment and of course, he dropped the cpu box – bye bye data. I was pretty cranky for a while after that……
I would be most certainly devastated if I lost all of the pics of my beautiful 3yr old daughter. Precious moments are hard to get back, period.
I would be most certainly devastated if I lost all of the pics of my beautiful 3yr old daughter. Precious moments are hard to get back, period.
I’d be devastated if I lost my Safari bookmarks! I’ve been to many sites that deserve repeat visits and I’d hate to never see them again.
Thankfully I’ve never lost data, but an external would ensure that!
I’d be devastated if I lost my Safari bookmarks! I’ve been to many sites that deserve repeat visits and I’d hate to never see them again.
Thankfully I’ve never lost data, but an external would ensure that!
I NEED storage…….iTunes music is taking over my life…
I NEED storage…….iTunes music is taking over my life…
Recently i suffer a lot of bad moments, first my IMac stop working, that occurs about 5 months ago, and since then i’ve not been enable to read anything from the hard drive. I was told that it’ll be repair by the second week of December. (I really hope so)
Also i had a 15″ Mac Book Pro, that was stolen from my work!!! (incredible but true)
Last, my Home PC also suffer an incident with the video card… I not have to say that i have all my precious moments on all that computers: photos, videos, emails, documents, files, etc… Anyone that has kids will know the amount of files in photos and videos that parents make…
I really dont want to lose any more files…
Recently i suffer a lot of bad moments, first my IMac stop working, that occurs about 5 months ago, and since then i’ve not been enable to read anything from the hard drive. I was told that it’ll be repair by the second week of December. (I really hope so)
Also i had a 15″ Mac Book Pro, that was stolen from my work!!! (incredible but true)
Last, my Home PC also suffer an incident with the video card… I not have to say that i have all my precious moments on all that computers: photos, videos, emails, documents, files, etc… Anyone that has kids will know the amount of files in photos and videos that parents make…
I really dont want to lose any more files…
I would be devastated if I lost my photos and my music. I also would be unhappy if I lost my master’s thesis, which will be my starting point for my PhD thesis. I could never recreate all that work.
I would be devastated if I lost my photos and my music. I also would be unhappy if I lost my master’s thesis, which will be my starting point for my PhD thesis. I could never recreate all that work.
I had my laptop stolen over last Thanksgiving. All of my family photos and document were gone. I’m still realizing how many photos are missing.
I don’t want this to ever happen again, neither does she!
I had my laptop stolen over last Thanksgiving. All of my family photos and document were gone. I’m still realizing how many photos are missing.
I don’t want this to ever happen again, neither does she!
Nothing. I don’t have a notebook and my wife’s pc is not worth backing up.
Nothing. I don’t have a notebook and my wife’s pc is not worth backing up.
Prevention is better than the cure! Save and prevent the cure!
Prevention is better than the cure! Save and prevent the cure!
I’ve spent most of my money on technology and travel. I think I would be devastated to lose the photos and music collections I’ve built up, collections that contain my travel experiences.
I almost lost all of my data recently. The first time I caught it in time and was able to do a backup to a new drive (the backup drive had failed recently too).
I’ve spent most of my money on technology and travel. I think I would be devastated to lose the photos and music collections I’ve built up, collections that contain my travel experiences.
I almost lost all of my data recently. The first time I caught it in time and was able to do a backup to a new drive (the backup drive had failed recently too).
I lost my entire harddrive- without backups- in 2004 on my old iMac G5 (first gen! didn’t even have a webcam). Shortly after that I cloned my drive every few months(!) to an external drive as I couldn’t really afford a external drive bigger than my internal.
Nowadays I backup an image of my documents/photos/movies folder every week to a 1TB TeraStation NAS. The images are encrypted with PGP Desktop before storage as anyone who wardrives into my Wifi would be able to login to the TeraStation (they have really, really crappy access control). Incremental backups of my Documents folder is done hourly to the 50gb Backup user provided by my webhost. The method of my upload is simple: SFTP via Expandrive so that it’s mounted as a disk.
P.S.- My webhost, Dreamhost, provides a 50gb amount of diskspace entirely for personal use that isn’t redundantly backed up by them. They provide you with 5tb of overall bandwidth so I don’t think I’ll ever run past that. On top of that reliable (in my experience!) hosting with a huge (500gb) of disk space all for $10 a month.
I lost my entire harddrive- without backups- in 2004 on my old iMac G5 (first gen! didn’t even have a webcam). Shortly after that I cloned my drive every few months(!) to an external drive as I couldn’t really afford a external drive bigger than my internal.
Nowadays I backup an image of my documents/photos/movies folder every week to a 1TB TeraStation NAS. The images are encrypted with PGP Desktop before storage as anyone who wardrives into my Wifi would be able to login to the TeraStation (they have really, really crappy access control). Incremental backups of my Documents folder is done hourly to the 50gb Backup user provided by my webhost. The method of my upload is simple: SFTP via Expandrive so that it’s mounted as a disk.
P.S.- My webhost, Dreamhost, provides a 50gb amount of diskspace entirely for personal use that isn’t redundantly backed up by them. They provide you with 5tb of overall bandwidth so I don’t think I’ll ever run past that. On top of that reliable (in my experience!) hosting with a huge (500gb) of disk space all for $10 a month.
I have a new iMac I haven’t started backing up. It has all the kids accounts and if it crashed they’d be *all over me*. Best reason anyone will give, guaranteed!
I have a new iMac I haven’t started backing up. It has all the kids accounts and if it crashed they’d be *all over me*. Best reason anyone will give, guaranteed!
I frequently have photos in my laptop that, while I’m on the road, have no backup at all and I would be most unhappy to lose them.
I once lost two years of my filed income tax forms. They were the only copies I had. Not even hard copies. Fortunately I have not required them – yet.
I frequently have photos in my laptop that, while I’m on the road, have no backup at all and I would be most unhappy to lose them.
I once lost two years of my filed income tax forms. They were the only copies I had. Not even hard copies. Fortunately I have not required them – yet.
I have all of my kids baby photos and videos on one drive and I need a back up solution now! I once lost data from a drive that had years of photos. The most recent photos on that drive included the photos from a rare family visit, and my engagement vacation. I hope to never lose data again!
I have all of my kids baby photos and videos on one drive and I need a back up solution now! I once lost data from a drive that had years of photos. The most recent photos on that drive included the photos from a rare family visit, and my engagement vacation. I hope to never lose data again!
I would be devastated if i lost my games, photos, works of art and music.
I would be devastated if i lost my games, photos, works of art and music.
I would die if I lost my 150 Gb of photos. If a picture is worth a thousand words and each picture is worth 5 Mb… thats a lot of memories I would be devastated to lose.
I would die if I lost my 150 Gb of photos. If a picture is worth a thousand words and each picture is worth 5 Mb… thats a lot of memories I would be devastated to lose.
I would be lost if I lost my graduate work and all the pictures of my family. I lost most of my undergraduate work when a drive failed.
I would be lost if I lost my graduate work and all the pictures of my family. I lost most of my undergraduate work when a drive failed.
I’d love to have a system to backup my data. I’m in high school, and I really want to save all of my work. I know that this well give me a sense of protection, and with this prize, and I can use this well into college.
I’d love to have a system to backup my data. I’m in high school, and I really want to save all of my work. I know that this well give me a sense of protection, and with this prize, and I can use this well into college.
I would freak out completely if I just lost one little file of all the files I have on my macbook. I’m like Scrooge McDuck, I know every little coin in my warehouse full of money. Except I only have files and no money like Scrooge McDuck.
I would freak out completely if I just lost one little file of all the files I have on my macbook. I’m like Scrooge McDuck, I know every little coin in my warehouse full of money. Except I only have files and no money like Scrooge McDuck.
I’ve lost several laptops and their data when they just quit working — usually a hard drive problem, so I couldn’t just pull the drive and copy it. A backup like this would be awesome insurance…
I’ve lost several laptops and their data when they just quit working — usually a hard drive problem, so I couldn’t just pull the drive and copy it. A backup like this would be awesome insurance…
Certainly photos, (first and foremost), and secondly email. I delete my email from the server after a day, and I maintain a copy of my important correspondence.
I did have a hard drive that went physically bad, and there was no way to recover my data. Very frustrating experience.
Certainly photos, (first and foremost), and secondly email. I delete my email from the server after a day, and I maintain a copy of my important correspondence.
I did have a hard drive that went physically bad, and there was no way to recover my data. Very frustrating experience.
devastated if you lost: PHOTOS.
lost important data: Lucky (not YET).
devastated if you lost: PHOTOS.
lost important data: Lucky (not YET).
I would hat to loose all my pictures, and maybe even more importantly all the software projects I have on my HD.
I had a hard drive failure many years ago, and I lost everything on that drive. I had a few small writing projects on it, so that really destroyed me, although I was a kid. I now use time machine to backup, although since it is in a noisy server, i don’t backup as much as I should. I have a Mac so if you choose me that would be great!
I would hat to loose all my pictures, and maybe even more importantly all the software projects I have on my HD.
I had a hard drive failure many years ago, and I lost everything on that drive. I had a few small writing projects on it, so that really destroyed me, although I was a kid. I now use time machine to backup, although since it is in a noisy server, i don’t backup as much as I should. I have a Mac so if you choose me that would be great!
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
For me the most devastating would of course be the thousands pictures I have taken of/with family and friends and places I have been to and the gigabytes of video I have recorded. That is something I just cannot get back if I were to lose them all, its gone, I can’t recreate that, I can’t go back in time and even if I could it would be a lot of work to go retake myself in photos and videos. Music I can rip back to my hard disk, documents, not so detrimental but still would be a hurtful lost (I currently try and back up the most important to Windows Live Skydrive, doing everything would take a weeks and I am naturally lazy) but its the digital content that matters most and thats Pictures and Videos.
Winning one of these would be a significant upgrade right now, here’s why:
On my Dell Dimension 8300 250 GB disk its partitioned:
C: Primary disk – Windows XP Professional 187 GB with 55.4 GBs of free space
F: WINNT – running Windows 7 Ultimate 8.16 free of 25.0 GB
I: NT6SRV – running WIndows Server 2008 Standard 6.99 GB free of 20.6 GB
My backup strategy for this computer is pretty much non-existent right now. I have the pictures,
documents, software programs, pictures and tonnes of music copied on the external in addition to the my Complete PC backup for the Dell Inspiron 1500 on that same external drive, space has become cramped. I would love to be able do a Complete PC backup of the desktop to save myself the trouble of having to reinstall the operating systems (please note plural) if the system were to go south. I also have about 10 Virtual PC .VHD files in my documents on C:, these too are not so detrimental, but man, recreating back everything would be a chore.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I can recall one devastating memory back in August of 2001. In March of 2000, my dad had gotten an IBM Aptiva for his office (Windows 98 SE, 10 GB HD). When school was over I would stop by his Office to use the free net and type documents in MS Word he dictated. Over the months going into 2001, a lot of documents were typed and hundreds of email sent and received in Outlook Express. In March of 2001,my aunt bought a copy of Windows ME which I immediately upgraded to from Windows 98 SE on the IBM Aptiva. (Please don’t assume its a story about Windows ME causing data loss, its not) Anyway, everything was going well, we had also upgraded from an old version of Norton that came with the Aptiva to Norton Antivirus 2001. Everything was going well for the next few months, it was also my last year of high school. During the summer I spent a huge amount of time at the Office on that PC. All that time surfing the net was fun, but I didn’t do certain things right. That same summer, I forced my Dad to get a copy of Windows 2000 Professional because of the reliability improvements that were touted.
July, I did a dual boot between ME and Windows 2000 Professional using FAT32 as the file system, but 2000 was installed on the same drive within a folder I created called WIN2K. Everything was going well, dual booting between 2000 and ME. One day when I stopped at the Office, my dad said
andre, somethings wrong with the PC when it boots up (2000 default) it keeps showing this message inconsistency with disk or something like that. I booted up the Aptiva into 2000 and during the boot sequence CHKDSK was initiated saying inconsistency with disk and its trying to repair it. I thought, strange, but it booted into 2000 just fine, desktop shows up, no issues. But that CHKDSK error kept bothering me.
We had data on both sides, with the most data in Windows ME, it was basically like transitioning. So, I rebooted, and this time I entered Windows Millenium. Then I got the CHKDSK sequence, with ME checking the volume for errors. Hmm, I started to wonder and worry. Eventually, it booted to the desktop, but it was in a 256 colors. I thought to myself, what was happening here? We left it until the next day when I carried the Windows ME disk to see if I could do a repair installation. I booted from the disk but during setup, it said I cannot install the OS because there might be a virus on the system and suggested I do a scan with my Antivirus. I thought,
WOW, a virus, ‘s***’. I exited setup, opened Norton 2001 and ran a full system scan, found the virus, couldn’t remove it, rebooted in safe mode on ME and ran the full scan, still couldn’t remove it. I know that the name of the virus was WORD97/W32 or something like that. I thought to myself, what the hell am I going to do?!?! I thought, ok, maybe I could just uninstall Windows ME since that was an option in AD/Remove Programs and it would remove the OS along with the virus. The uninstall went well, but when I booted back to 98 it was the same 256 colors, which meant it was the same virus still lurking. I didn’t feel good inside. I booted into 2000 and everything seemed ok, the desktop was 32 bit colors. What happened next was the worst decision I ever made in computing. I took the IBM Aptiva Restore disk out of the box to see if this would do a repair installation and fix the problem. I was thinking, hey, maybe it will detect the Windows 98 installation and repair it. Ok, I booted from the Aptiva Disk and which had like a BSOD DOS screen. Then the installation began, then I saw reinstalling IBM software, then I saw formatting drive, then I saw installing Windows 98 SE, then I saw register for IBM support, then I saw a brand new Windows 98 desktop, then I opened My Documents and there were no documents, then I opened Outlook Express and I only got prompt to create an account. That weird cold sweat feeling came over. I rebooted, thinking and hoping maybe I would see the Windows 2000 Professional, uh, there was no Windows 2000, no boot entry. Now, I’m thinking, where could those documents have gone and my dads emails. I opened the C: drive, no documents there, nothing. The worst part was yet to come and that was explaining to my dad, all his personal files and email were gone. Yes, he was angry, but he didn’t kill me. I realize I was naive with what I had done. Probably what I should have done was copy everything over from 98 to Windows 2000 and upgraded Windows 2000 from FAT32 to NTFS, but I just didn’t know how to do those things at the time. What could have also done was to use some floppies and back up as many word documents as possible and copy them to my computer at home. It would have taken a long time, but at least, I would have had some of his data backed up. Eventually, I said dad, we need to invest in a CD-Burner and all was well again – for now.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
For me the most devastating would of course be the thousands pictures I have taken of/with family and friends and places I have been to and the gigabytes of video I have recorded. That is something I just cannot get back if I were to lose them all, its gone, I can’t recreate that, I can’t go back in time and even if I could it would be a lot of work to go retake myself in photos and videos. Music I can rip back to my hard disk, documents, not so detrimental but still would be a hurtful lost (I currently try and back up the most important to Windows Live Skydrive, doing everything would take a weeks and I am naturally lazy) but its the digital content that matters most and thats Pictures and Videos.
Winning one of these would be a significant upgrade right now, here’s why:
On my Dell Dimension 8300 250 GB disk its partitioned:
C: Primary disk – Windows XP Professional 187 GB with 55.4 GBs of free space
F: WINNT – running Windows 7 Ultimate 8.16 free of 25.0 GB
I: NT6SRV – running WIndows Server 2008 Standard 6.99 GB free of 20.6 GB
My backup strategy for this computer is pretty much non-existent right now. I have the pictures,
documents, software programs, pictures and tonnes of music copied on the external in addition to the my Complete PC backup for the Dell Inspiron 1500 on that same external drive, space has become cramped. I would love to be able do a Complete PC backup of the desktop to save myself the trouble of having to reinstall the operating systems (please note plural) if the system were to go south. I also have about 10 Virtual PC .VHD files in my documents on C:, these too are not so detrimental, but man, recreating back everything would be a chore.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I can recall one devastating memory back in August of 2001. In March of 2000, my dad had gotten an IBM Aptiva for his office (Windows 98 SE, 10 GB HD). When school was over I would stop by his Office to use the free net and type documents in MS Word he dictated. Over the months going into 2001, a lot of documents were typed and hundreds of email sent and received in Outlook Express. In March of 2001,my aunt bought a copy of Windows ME which I immediately upgraded to from Windows 98 SE on the IBM Aptiva. (Please don’t assume its a story about Windows ME causing data loss, its not) Anyway, everything was going well, we had also upgraded from an old version of Norton that came with the Aptiva to Norton Antivirus 2001. Everything was going well for the next few months, it was also my last year of high school. During the summer I spent a huge amount of time at the Office on that PC. All that time surfing the net was fun, but I didn’t do certain things right. That same summer, I forced my Dad to get a copy of Windows 2000 Professional because of the reliability improvements that were touted.
July, I did a dual boot between ME and Windows 2000 Professional using FAT32 as the file system, but 2000 was installed on the same drive within a folder I created called WIN2K. Everything was going well, dual booting between 2000 and ME. One day when I stopped at the Office, my dad said
andre, somethings wrong with the PC when it boots up (2000 default) it keeps showing this message inconsistency with disk or something like that. I booted up the Aptiva into 2000 and during the boot sequence CHKDSK was initiated saying inconsistency with disk and its trying to repair it. I thought, strange, but it booted into 2000 just fine, desktop shows up, no issues. But that CHKDSK error kept bothering me.
We had data on both sides, with the most data in Windows ME, it was basically like transitioning. So, I rebooted, and this time I entered Windows Millenium. Then I got the CHKDSK sequence, with ME checking the volume for errors. Hmm, I started to wonder and worry. Eventually, it booted to the desktop, but it was in a 256 colors. I thought to myself, what was happening here? We left it until the next day when I carried the Windows ME disk to see if I could do a repair installation. I booted from the disk but during setup, it said I cannot install the OS because there might be a virus on the system and suggested I do a scan with my Antivirus. I thought,
WOW, a virus, ‘s***’. I exited setup, opened Norton 2001 and ran a full system scan, found the virus, couldn’t remove it, rebooted in safe mode on ME and ran the full scan, still couldn’t remove it. I know that the name of the virus was WORD97/W32 or something like that. I thought to myself, what the hell am I going to do?!?! I thought, ok, maybe I could just uninstall Windows ME since that was an option in AD/Remove Programs and it would remove the OS along with the virus. The uninstall went well, but when I booted back to 98 it was the same 256 colors, which meant it was the same virus still lurking. I didn’t feel good inside. I booted into 2000 and everything seemed ok, the desktop was 32 bit colors. What happened next was the worst decision I ever made in computing. I took the IBM Aptiva Restore disk out of the box to see if this would do a repair installation and fix the problem. I was thinking, hey, maybe it will detect the Windows 98 installation and repair it. Ok, I booted from the Aptiva Disk and which had like a BSOD DOS screen. Then the installation began, then I saw reinstalling IBM software, then I saw formatting drive, then I saw installing Windows 98 SE, then I saw register for IBM support, then I saw a brand new Windows 98 desktop, then I opened My Documents and there were no documents, then I opened Outlook Express and I only got prompt to create an account. That weird cold sweat feeling came over. I rebooted, thinking and hoping maybe I would see the Windows 2000 Professional, uh, there was no Windows 2000, no boot entry. Now, I’m thinking, where could those documents have gone and my dads emails. I opened the C: drive, no documents there, nothing. The worst part was yet to come and that was explaining to my dad, all his personal files and email were gone. Yes, he was angry, but he didn’t kill me. I realize I was naive with what I had done. Probably what I should have done was copy everything over from 98 to Windows 2000 and upgraded Windows 2000 from FAT32 to NTFS, but I just didn’t know how to do those things at the time. What could have also done was to use some floppies and back up as many word documents as possible and copy them to my computer at home. It would have taken a long time, but at least, I would have had some of his data backed up. Eventually, I said dad, we need to invest in a CD-Burner and all was well again – for now.
Hmm…I would be devastated if I lost all of my ex-girlfriends’ pictures!
I mean, memories are nice, but having photos is priceless :S
I lost them already once *gulp* about one year ago, when I used “this” program to defragment my mac (Didn’t need it but I was young and a noob :/), and it ended up with me having to reinstall the entire system again
Needless to say, I now keep several copies of my important data (On flash USBs though…)
That hard drive would be nice having ^_^
Hmm…I would be devastated if I lost all of my ex-girlfriends’ pictures!
I mean, memories are nice, but having photos is priceless :S
I lost them already once *gulp* about one year ago, when I used “this” program to defragment my mac (Didn’t need it but I was young and a noob :/), and it ended up with me having to reinstall the entire system again
Needless to say, I now keep several copies of my important data (On flash USBs though…)
That hard drive would be nice having ^_^
I would obviously be devastated if I lost all of our pictures. That is a given. I would also be upset to lose all of the music that I have painstakingly moved over from CDs over the past 5 years.
So far I have been lucky as far as losing anything. Have helped people who lost stuff, but for myself (knock on wood) so far so good.
I would obviously be devastated if I lost all of our pictures. That is a given. I would also be upset to lose all of the music that I have painstakingly moved over from CDs over the past 5 years.
So far I have been lucky as far as losing anything. Have helped people who lost stuff, but for myself (knock on wood) so far so good.
I’d be devastated if I lost all the photos i have on my laptop since 4 years ago. I’ve had so many memories on here that losing it would be losing a part of my life. I have lost a laptop once (my previous one) and was not only depressed for a week but also realized that what I needed was a backup harddrive
in case of these unfortunate events. You can’t buy happiness with money, but you can help it from being lost.
I’d be devastated if I lost all the photos i have on my laptop since 4 years ago. I’ve had so many memories on here that losing it would be losing a part of my life. I have lost a laptop once (my previous one) and was not only depressed for a week but also realized that what I needed was a backup harddrive
in case of these unfortunate events. You can’t buy happiness with money, but you can help it from being lost.
Where do you begin? These days everyone stores everything on hard drives; our pictures, music, documents. Then there is my research.
Have lost data several times. Some of the times no backup was made so that was a bummer. Some there were CD/DVD backups. But we all know how tedious and time-consuming that can be, don’t we?
Where do you begin? These days everyone stores everything on hard drives; our pictures, music, documents. Then there is my research.
Have lost data several times. Some of the times no backup was made so that was a bummer. Some there were CD/DVD backups. But we all know how tedious and time-consuming that can be, don’t we?
We have many many short videos of our two year old daughter. they are just sitting on my computer not backed up anywhere. I’d be devastated if we lost them. A few years ago my wife lost an entire documentary project of her now deceased grandmother. It was edited and mixed and the drive died. it was crushing. I’ve learned to try and back up everything, but all I can do right now is burn suff to 4.2GB DVDs. Not a terribly elegant solution.
We have many many short videos of our two year old daughter. they are just sitting on my computer not backed up anywhere. I’d be devastated if we lost them. A few years ago my wife lost an entire documentary project of her now deceased grandmother. It was edited and mixed and the drive died. it was crushing. I’ve learned to try and back up everything, but all I can do right now is burn suff to 4.2GB DVDs. Not a terribly elegant solution.
I would be feeling quite suicidal if I lost all the various videos I collected over the years. They range from anything like the 2008 Olympics Beijing Welcomes You promo video to school project videos and high quality versions of Yale’s online courses. The reason they’re so important is that I add subtitles (which take enormous amounts of time to add) and release them back to the public. I keep a separate folder for my karaoke effects, which are the pride and honor of every subber.
I once had to do an immediate reformat on my old Toshiba (dang you rootkit) and I lost over half of my research project and video. It wasn’t really devastating if you looked at it in retrospect, but ugh that was hell when 2 months of work was due in 2 days.
I would be feeling quite suicidal if I lost all the various videos I collected over the years. They range from anything like the 2008 Olympics Beijing Welcomes You promo video to school project videos and high quality versions of Yale’s online courses. The reason they’re so important is that I add subtitles (which take enormous amounts of time to add) and release them back to the public. I keep a separate folder for my karaoke effects, which are the pride and honor of every subber.
I once had to do an immediate reformat on my old Toshiba (dang you rootkit) and I lost over half of my research project and video. It wasn’t really devastating if you looked at it in retrospect, but ugh that was hell when 2 months of work was due in 2 days.
I am an author. I would be devastated if I lost any of my manuscripts in a crash. I actually keep most of my really important work on a jump drive but I did lose that once. Not a crash just an absent-minded where did I put that. I was in a panic! I had some but not all of my work.
I’d love a backup drive!
I am an author. I would be devastated if I lost any of my manuscripts in a crash. I actually keep most of my really important work on a jump drive but I did lose that once. Not a crash just an absent-minded where did I put that. I was in a panic! I had some but not all of my work.
I’d love a backup drive!
Hi,
I learnt in the hard way to backup my digital art collection (10 years of my work) after a fire…
Yep, there is not enough backups
Good day 2 all!
Roy.
Hi,
I learnt in the hard way to backup my digital art collection (10 years of my work) after a fire…
Yep, there is not enough backups
Good day 2 all!
Roy.
I would be devastated if I lost my school work/notes, photos, and music.
I’ve been lucky enough to never lose any data.
I would be devastated if I lost my school work/notes, photos, and music.
I’ve been lucky enough to never lose any data.
I like to write a lot, whether its song ideas, or something that just came to me and I needed to write it down. Usually they go in my notebook.
To me those things are priceless and it would be horrible if I lost them.
A few years ago I had this stubborn mindset and believed my hard drive would never quit on me, I had a colleague who would nag me about backing up and I always said I’d do it later, and never did. One day I caved to his persistence and when I got home from purchasing a 160gb external drive, the drive in the notebook had already failed.
1TB would be great for time machine on my mac notebook though!
I like to write a lot, whether its song ideas, or something that just came to me and I needed to write it down. Usually they go in my notebook.
To me those things are priceless and it would be horrible if I lost them.
A few years ago I had this stubborn mindset and believed my hard drive would never quit on me, I had a colleague who would nag me about backing up and I always said I’d do it later, and never did. One day I caved to his persistence and when I got home from purchasing a 160gb external drive, the drive in the notebook had already failed.
1TB would be great for time machine on my mac notebook though!
By the grace of the spinning platters, I’ve never lost any data but I’d be devastated if anything happened to my photos or FACS or microscopy data!
By the grace of the spinning platters, I’ve never lost any data but I’d be devastated if anything happened to my photos or FACS or microscopy data!
I’ve lost all my music a few times, the first when I used mainly iTunes it wasn’t so bad but then I lost most of it again and had to get what I had from old ipods and friends who had my cd’s and stuff like that.
it was really annoying, and I try to backup but the harddrive I have is running out of space and I have no money to buy another.
I’m mainly afraid for my photos though, the only backup I had was an ipod, which had its harddrive fail a few weeks ago.
I’ve lost all my music a few times, the first when I used mainly iTunes it wasn’t so bad but then I lost most of it again and had to get what I had from old ipods and friends who had my cd’s and stuff like that.
it was really annoying, and I try to backup but the harddrive I have is running out of space and I have no money to buy another.
I’m mainly afraid for my photos though, the only backup I had was an ipod, which had its harddrive fail a few weeks ago.
On my laptop, I have copies of photos and my FLAC encoded music. My photos are uploaded to Flickr and burned to DVD, and I have the original CDs. I’d have to re-rip the CDs which would be a pain in the butt…
If I lost important data I’d be gutted. Thankfully it hasn’t happened…. yet…
On my laptop, I have copies of photos and my FLAC encoded music. My photos are uploaded to Flickr and burned to DVD, and I have the original CDs. I’d have to re-rip the CDs which would be a pain in the butt…
If I lost important data I’d be gutted. Thankfully it hasn’t happened…. yet…
What would I lose with my macbook?
my soul!
do you know where I can download a new one?
What would I lose with my macbook?
my soul!
do you know where I can download a new one?
I would be devastated if my drive failed because I would lose my digital life. I have all of my documents, music, pictures, videos, and pretty much anything digital in one place. I’m a web developer, so I would also lose all my code and documents I need to get my work done.
I would be devastated if my drive failed because I would lose my digital life. I have all of my documents, music, pictures, videos, and pretty much anything digital in one place. I’m a web developer, so I would also lose all my code and documents I need to get my work done.
I’d be devastated if I lost my music, photos, works of art, and school/personal documents. Last time I lost data was about 10 years ago, and it really made me upset that I lost most of it.
I’d be devastated if I lost my music, photos, works of art, and school/personal documents. Last time I lost data was about 10 years ago, and it really made me upset that I lost most of it.
I make 5 copies of my photos!!!
I make 5 copies of my photos!!!
I’d be devastated if I lost all of my Final Cut projects. Thankfully, I’ve never lost anything important—yet.
I’d be devastated if I lost all of my Final Cut projects. Thankfully, I’ve never lost anything important—yet.
I’d be devastated if I lost all my music and photos, plus all my assignments and projects, plus other work I’ve done. I’ve never had a drive crash on me *knocks on wood* but I see it all the time at work and it makes we wish I backed stuff up regularly.
I’d be devastated if I lost all my music and photos, plus all my assignments and projects, plus other work I’ve done. I’ve never had a drive crash on me *knocks on wood* but I see it all the time at work and it makes we wish I backed stuff up regularly.
I’ve definitely lost some data before, back in the days when I did CD-R backups. Now I backup all important files to an external hard drive, and have most (if not all) text files in the cloud with Google Docs. Keep copies of all my photos on Picasa Web Albums, videos on Youtube or Google Video, and for random other files I’ve tried online storage like box.net, and that and similar sites seem to work decently as well.
I’ve definitely lost some data before, back in the days when I did CD-R backups. Now I backup all important files to an external hard drive, and have most (if not all) text files in the cloud with Google Docs. Keep copies of all my photos on Picasa Web Albums, videos on Youtube or Google Video, and for random other files I’ve tried online storage like box.net, and that and similar sites seem to work decently as well.
Losing my vacation photos would be pretty painful. Luckily I use Time Machine to backup regularly. Yes, I have lost data to an HD failure. It was not pleasant.
Losing my vacation photos would be pretty painful. Luckily I use Time Machine to backup regularly. Yes, I have lost data to an HD failure. It was not pleasant.
If I lost my home movies and vacation videos, I would be devastated.
Last time I lost my data, I was thankful that I had a backup on my external Seagate backup drive.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Company payroll!
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I have been a victim of a virus that corrupted the partition table on my hard drive. I lost all my files and I had to totally start from scratch.
If I lost my home movies and vacation videos, I would be devastated.
Last time I lost my data, I was thankful that I had a backup on my external Seagate backup drive.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Company payroll!
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I have been a victim of a virus that corrupted the partition table on my hard drive. I lost all my files and I had to totally start from scratch.
I love free things!
I love free things!
I would be devastated if I lost my photos. I have never personally lost information, however, I know people who have lost all their family photos and music.
I would be devastated if I lost my photos. I have never personally lost information, however, I know people who have lost all their family photos and music.
I have a 260 Gig WD that’s running out of space now. It would be great if I win one of these bad boys. I have too much to lose if i don’t back up
I have a 260 Gig WD that’s running out of space now. It would be great if I win one of these bad boys. I have too much to lose if i don’t back up
I would be devastated if I lost my music collection and/or my photos, specifically my photos from Costa Rica (most beautiful place in the world). Additionally, I use a Mac, and Time Machine is an invaluable tool.
As far as lost data, I used to use a PC notebook. Senior year of college, it crashed. I lost most of my essays, assignments and writing samples from undergrad in the crash.
I would be devastated if I lost my music collection and/or my photos, specifically my photos from Costa Rica (most beautiful place in the world). Additionally, I use a Mac, and Time Machine is an invaluable tool.
As far as lost data, I used to use a PC notebook. Senior year of college, it crashed. I lost most of my essays, assignments and writing samples from undergrad in the crash.
I’d be devastated if I lost all my personal digital photos that store on my computer.
I have PDFs of letters written to me by my aging fifty six year old father with heart failure, telling me what to do in the event of his death, which are crucial to me. I’m the last link biological link to his side of my family; everyone on his side has died, excluding me. I’m biologically an only child. After my mom and dad divorced, my mom remarried and had a child with my stepdad, but he doesn’t have the same DNA as my biological father, so I am the last link to that side of the family. Without these files, I’d lose a big link to him, seeing as the original letters were destroyed several years ago in a flood. (Thank goodness I had the bright idea of backing them up digitally!)
Back when I had a PC, there was a power problem that damaged my desktop’s hard drive, somehow managing to get through the surge protector I had. These files were files of my stepbrother as a baby. Fortunately, my step dad had them backed up, so they weren’t permanently lost to the ether.
I’d be devastated if I lost all my personal digital photos that store on my computer.
I have PDFs of letters written to me by my aging fifty six year old father with heart failure, telling me what to do in the event of his death, which are crucial to me. I’m the last link biological link to his side of my family; everyone on his side has died, excluding me. I’m biologically an only child. After my mom and dad divorced, my mom remarried and had a child with my stepdad, but he doesn’t have the same DNA as my biological father, so I am the last link to that side of the family. Without these files, I’d lose a big link to him, seeing as the original letters were destroyed several years ago in a flood. (Thank goodness I had the bright idea of backing them up digitally!)
Back when I had a PC, there was a power problem that damaged my desktop’s hard drive, somehow managing to get through the surge protector I had. These files were files of my stepbrother as a baby. Fortunately, my step dad had them backed up, so they weren’t permanently lost to the ether.
Currently, I have my website backups, and losing those would be somewhat devastating. But not having a backup of my system itself is probably the worst part since it’d quite tedious to have everything running as it is right now.
Several years ago, a hard drive I had died and I lost all my data. The good part about that is that it forced me to upgrade my system, but it wasn’t fun to start from zero.
Currently, I have my website backups, and losing those would be somewhat devastating. But not having a backup of my system itself is probably the worst part since it’d quite tedious to have everything running as it is right now.
Several years ago, a hard drive I had died and I lost all my data. The good part about that is that it forced me to upgrade my system, but it wasn’t fun to start from zero.
Hi before I start I want to tell you that I´m from El Salvador and I’m at Indianapolis on vacations buy I really like here so if I will try my best to make me clear, because my english isn´t perfect.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Wow, I would say that all my university work, because I have a lot of projects and research that are very important to me. And my pictures because I have a lot and all of them bring me good memories.
Have you ever lost important data, what happened?
Yes, once I lost a big document of a university project, and I went crazy, for minutes I thought that I was done, but then I thought that was better to do something, so I did what I could, anyway I win something of that grade but wasn´t even close of what I would obtain if I didn´t lose my files.
Hi before I start I want to tell you that I´m from El Salvador and I’m at Indianapolis on vacations buy I really like here so if I will try my best to make me clear, because my english isn´t perfect.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Wow, I would say that all my university work, because I have a lot of projects and research that are very important to me. And my pictures because I have a lot and all of them bring me good memories.
Have you ever lost important data, what happened?
Yes, once I lost a big document of a university project, and I went crazy, for minutes I thought that I was done, but then I thought that was better to do something, so I did what I could, anyway I win something of that grade but wasn´t even close of what I would obtain if I didn´t lose my files.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
-My music. some of them I don’t have the original CDs anymore =/
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
-Again, my music. It was years ago and thankfully I had the original CDs at that time for most of them.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
-My music. some of them I don’t have the original CDs anymore =/
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
-Again, my music. It was years ago and thankfully I had the original CDs at that time for most of them.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Personal documents and photos.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Of course.
Only part of that I had on some DVDs, but the rest was lost for good.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Personal documents and photos.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Of course.
Only part of that I had on some DVDs, but the rest was lost for good.
I would be devasted if I lost a clients work. I’m a graphic designer and you can spend hours if not days working on projests. This happened to me two years ago when my iMac had a hard drive failure in the middle of a print job. I had to drag out my old machine, which is slow and start again. A very late night and I now never work without the safetly net of a backup.
I would be devasted if I lost a clients work. I’m a graphic designer and you can spend hours if not days working on projests. This happened to me two years ago when my iMac had a hard drive failure in the middle of a print job. I had to drag out my old machine, which is slow and start again. A very late night and I now never work without the safetly net of a backup.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
=Most important, all of my photos.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
= Gone forever, but not forgotten….
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
=Most important, all of my photos.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
= Gone forever, but not forgotten….
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
My photos and my docs. My work’s life is safe thanks to GitHub
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I lost an HD with many many many loved old photos some years ago … I’m sad re-thinking about that
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
My photos and my docs. My work’s life is safe thanks to GitHub
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I lost an HD with many many many loved old photos some years ago … I’m sad re-thinking about that
My laptop was stolen recently and my backups were a little… shall we say, out of date.
So I can say from experience that losing my client files and pictures was the most devastating.
My laptop was stolen recently and my backups were a little… shall we say, out of date.
So I can say from experience that losing my client files and pictures was the most devastating.
Very good question… I’ve lost things before, but have recovered them. Nowadays, I use LaCie and Seagates to backup my stuff. Works Wonders!
Very good question… I’ve lost things before, but have recovered them. Nowadays, I use LaCie and Seagates to backup my stuff. Works Wonders!
I Have a lot of Music,Videos,Movies,Softwares,eBooks etc., and i dont have a backup as of now since the 250GB External drive isnt enough to backup around 960GB of data, so this would really do a magic for me.
P.S : Good Luck to all the participants :d
I Have a lot of Music,Videos,Movies,Softwares,eBooks etc., and i dont have a backup as of now since the 250GB External drive isnt enough to backup around 960GB of data, so this would really do a magic for me.
P.S : Good Luck to all the participants :d
I would be devastated if i lost my photo raw files.
I would be devastated if i lost my photo raw files.
I would be devastated of losing all my old photos and documents. I lost an old hard drive long ago and with it lost tons of music and documents.
I would be devastated of losing all my old photos and documents. I lost an old hard drive long ago and with it lost tons of music and documents.
If I lost my family pictures and videos, my life would drastically change.
I haven’t lost anything big, but the “opportunity” to redo lost presentations has never been high on my excitement list.
If I lost my family pictures and videos, my life would drastically change.
I haven’t lost anything big, but the “opportunity” to redo lost presentations has never been high on my excitement list.
I have family pictures. I’d feel sad if I lost my music, work files, pictures and videos. But I wouldn’t feel devastated. I learned from past data losses not to get too attached to my data.
I KNOW!
Also, I don’t have to save critical data on my laptop.
I have family pictures. I’d feel sad if I lost my music, work files, pictures and videos. But I wouldn’t feel devastated. I learned from past data losses not to get too attached to my data.
I KNOW!
Also, I don’t have to save critical data on my laptop.
I have quicken and quickbooks data on my laptop. Also photos, music, and a lot of personal files written over the last 20 years. I have lost some of the data before. I only had an out of date backup, so I didn’t get everything back.
Right now I use JungleDisk to backup what I can, but there is just too much data to backup given my slow upsteam.
I have quicken and quickbooks data on my laptop. Also photos, music, and a lot of personal files written over the last 20 years. I have lost some of the data before. I only had an out of date backup, so I didn’t get everything back.
Right now I use JungleDisk to backup what I can, but there is just too much data to backup given my slow upsteam.
Well…My Pictures, Database Backups & My Hand Histories (for texas hold’em), Music, Movies, Lots of Ebooks, some software waiting to being installed later, emails (archived ones as well)…So all this Could be lost if any happened with my laptop or its harddrive..
V.i.k.t.o.r
Well…My Pictures, Database Backups & My Hand Histories (for texas hold’em), Music, Movies, Lots of Ebooks, some software waiting to being installed later, emails (archived ones as well)…So all this Could be lost if any happened with my laptop or its harddrive..
V.i.k.t.o.r
I would be devastated if I lost my music collection from my notebook. I currently have close to 40GB of music and it would take years to redownload it all over again. Luckly I haven’t lost anything (yet!).
It would be sweet to win a hard drive from you guys!
I would be devastated if I lost my music collection from my notebook. I currently have close to 40GB of music and it would take years to redownload it all over again. Luckly I haven’t lost anything (yet!).
It would be sweet to win a hard drive from you guys!
I use a USB thumb drive for important docs. If I lost those docs — ughh!!! This would definately help.
I use a USB thumb drive for important docs. If I lost those docs — ughh!!! This would definately help.
I would be devastated if I lost my photos, music files and/or some old documents. I lost a bunch of it a few years ago. I had all important data copied over 2 IDE disks, but a mainboard failure destroyed data on both disks.
I would be devastated if I lost my photos, music files and/or some old documents. I lost a bunch of it a few years ago. I had all important data copied over 2 IDE disks, but a mainboard failure destroyed data on both disks.
I would cry like a little kid who lost their lollypop if the last four years of my life (pictures, projects and documents) stored on my laptop was destroyed!
I would cry like a little kid who lost their lollypop if the last four years of my life (pictures, projects and documents) stored on my laptop was destroyed!
As a semi-professional photographer, my pictures would be the greatest loss of all.
I’ve had catastrophic HD failure before. It is not pretty. That’s why I try to keep an adequate supply of HD’s around to back-up to. (DVDs just don’t cut it any more with over 200GP of pictures.) The problem is, I need to keep getting bigger and bigger HDs as my data expands. One of these drives would go a long way to curing my ails!
As a semi-professional photographer, my pictures would be the greatest loss of all.
I’ve had catastrophic HD failure before. It is not pretty. That’s why I try to keep an adequate supply of HD’s around to back-up to. (DVDs just don’t cut it any more with over 200GP of pictures.) The problem is, I need to keep getting bigger and bigger HDs as my data expands. One of these drives would go a long way to curing my ails!
Photos…lots of them. A few of these I have spent hours on learning some of the photoshop techniques I wanted to use to enhance my work. All photos have memories, but some truly can never be replaced.
Photos…lots of them. A few of these I have spent hours on learning some of the photoshop techniques I wanted to use to enhance my work. All photos have memories, but some truly can never be replaced.
I would be devastated if I lost my recordings for my bands…or my Flash toons I’m working on.
Personally, I haven’t lost any data, but my brother’s girlfriend’s camera decided to erase her SD card once…Luckily, I pulled up some freeware file recovery software (Restoration) and got all the pictures back.
I would be devastated if I lost my recordings for my bands…or my Flash toons I’m working on.
Personally, I haven’t lost any data, but my brother’s girlfriend’s camera decided to erase her SD card once…Luckily, I pulled up some freeware file recovery software (Restoration) and got all the pictures back.
I would be devastated if I lost my Pictures. You can recreate documents and other things. You can’t recreate the past.
I lost data once. My drive died on my MacBook Pro with no warning signs. I didn’t have a recent backup and my backups were scattered on multiple smaller drives. It took a long time to recreate my data and I only got about 75% back. Pictures are what I missed the most.
I would be devastated if I lost my Pictures. You can recreate documents and other things. You can’t recreate the past.
I lost data once. My drive died on my MacBook Pro with no warning signs. I didn’t have a recent backup and my backups were scattered on multiple smaller drives. It took a long time to recreate my data and I only got about 75% back. Pictures are what I missed the most.
I would be devastated if I lost all my photos. I’ve digitized tons of ancient photos from my parents’ days, and those memories can never be replaced. I also have tons of pet photos, snapshots of moments that can’t be recreated.
I have actually never lost data before, due to my backup habits. I’m just that good.
I would be devastated if I lost all my photos. I’ve digitized tons of ancient photos from my parents’ days, and those memories can never be replaced. I also have tons of pet photos, snapshots of moments that can’t be recreated.
I have actually never lost data before, due to my backup habits. I’m just that good.
I and my wife would be devastated if we lost her research papers(Graduate) that are due in December.
Three years ago my Dell notebook’s HDD crashed just a day before my Chemistry research paper was due. I didn’t have any hard copies. Yes! I was screwed and I had to do it all over again.
I and my wife would be devastated if we lost her research papers(Graduate) that are due in December.
Three years ago my Dell notebook’s HDD crashed just a day before my Chemistry research paper was due. I didn’t have any hard copies. Yes! I was screwed and I had to do it all over again.
I would be devastated if I lost my work. I run an indie record label. Among the normal personal stuff I have multi-track audio projects, audio mastering projects, cover art and POS design projects, multiple web sites, video projects, and tons more things I can’t even recall right this minute in my post-Thanksgiving and Black Friday fog. I’ve been lucky not to have lost anything major so far, because I do back up my data. But a larger drive (or two) would definitely rock.
I would be devastated if I lost my work. I run an indie record label. Among the normal personal stuff I have multi-track audio projects, audio mastering projects, cover art and POS design projects, multiple web sites, video projects, and tons more things I can’t even recall right this minute in my post-Thanksgiving and Black Friday fog. I’ve been lucky not to have lost anything major so far, because I do back up my data. But a larger drive (or two) would definitely rock.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
photos, old journal scans, journals
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Back when we were using windows 3.1 somehow we burned the data to a cd-rom after the computer crashed. Since then we’ve stayed backed up on MO drives and now a tiny external hard drive.
If I get this 1TB drive and 500G drive I’ll also back up all our about-to-scratch favorite BBC DVDs.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
photos, old journal scans, journals
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Back when we were using windows 3.1 somehow we burned the data to a cd-rom after the computer crashed. Since then we’ve stayed backed up on MO drives and now a tiny external hard drive.
If I get this 1TB drive and 500G drive I’ll also back up all our about-to-scratch favorite BBC DVDs.
I lost photos, and it sucks!!!
I upload some stuff encrypted to my home server (HTPC) and to my websever, but an external drive it on of the best options!
I lost photos, and it sucks!!!
I upload some stuff encrypted to my home server (HTPC) and to my websever, but an external drive it on of the best options!
My ongoing 3 year “project†constituting over 320 MS Word files, 54 PowerPoint presentations, and over 1000 images and music files. I am of course talking about my collegiate career so far!
My ongoing 3 year “project†constituting over 320 MS Word files, 54 PowerPoint presentations, and over 1000 images and music files. I am of course talking about my collegiate career so far!
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Firstly, over 8 GB worth of pictures of family and friends… From weddings to graduations to birthdays… Secondly, over 5 years of school “work”
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I did… My computer crashed… Which was replaced by a less than par laptop… Which also crashed resulting in a loss of TONS of files… Gladly… It happened when I didn’t start college yet.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
Firstly, over 8 GB worth of pictures of family and friends… From weddings to graduations to birthdays… Secondly, over 5 years of school “work”
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I did… My computer crashed… Which was replaced by a less than par laptop… Which also crashed resulting in a loss of TONS of files… Gladly… It happened when I didn’t start college yet.
I would be devastated if I lost my pictures. I love pictures and I don’t know what I would do if I lost them.
I would be devastated if I lost my pictures. I love pictures and I don’t know what I would do if I lost them.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
I’ve backed up unbelievable amounts of .mp3s on my laptop’s drive. The amount of hours I’ve spent ripping my CDs to listen to (for either ipod or just PC listening, and for backup purposes) is substantial. I have a 60gb drive, and I would estimate 50% of this is extremely important to me…between college word documents, uploaded pictures, the earlier mentioned mp3s, and tons of other random things, it would be terrible for me to lose them.
Important data being lost-
I’m fortunate enough to have never lost my most important data. I am UNfortunate enough to have had to pay a substantial amount of money to have bestbuy (never again) back up all of the information from a dead drive. More importantly, I waited days for them to finish this process, which was done, for some reason, by DVD NOT an external hard drive. It was a nightmare situation that cost me far too much money and time. I recently lost access to Windows and was able to use a boot disk w/ file manager to back up my most important files to a friend’s external. Externals have saved me in the past! I need one for myself for the future.
I am a photography student, and have traveled to Africa and a few places in Europe. I would cry…a lot…if I lost those photos.
Two types of people: those who have lost data, and those who will. I’m the first type. My last notebook took a tumble off the couch onto a tile floor. Hard drive physically crashed – little hope of data recovery. I lost practically everything (except my photos, which were on an external drive at the time). A few weeks later a client asked if they could make a change to their brochures and order another couple thousand. I had to explain why it would take a week as I recreated the brochure from scratch. I also could only charged for 1 hour when the work was 5 or 6.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
I’ve backed up unbelievable amounts of .mp3s on my laptop’s drive. The amount of hours I’ve spent ripping my CDs to listen to (for either ipod or just PC listening, and for backup purposes) is substantial. I have a 60gb drive, and I would estimate 50% of this is extremely important to me…between college word documents, uploaded pictures, the earlier mentioned mp3s, and tons of other random things, it would be terrible for me to lose them.
Important data being lost-
I’m fortunate enough to have never lost my most important data. I am UNfortunate enough to have had to pay a substantial amount of money to have bestbuy (never again) back up all of the information from a dead drive. More importantly, I waited days for them to finish this process, which was done, for some reason, by DVD NOT an external hard drive. It was a nightmare situation that cost me far too much money and time. I recently lost access to Windows and was able to use a boot disk w/ file manager to back up my most important files to a friend’s external. Externals have saved me in the past! I need one for myself for the future.
I am a photography student, and have traveled to Africa and a few places in Europe. I would cry…a lot…if I lost those photos.
Two types of people: those who have lost data, and those who will. I’m the first type. My last notebook took a tumble off the couch onto a tile floor. Hard drive physically crashed – little hope of data recovery. I lost practically everything (except my photos, which were on an external drive at the time). A few weeks later a client asked if they could make a change to their brochures and order another couple thousand. I had to explain why it would take a week as I recreated the brochure from scratch. I also could only charged for 1 hour when the work was 5 or 6.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
The worst possible thing that I could lose would be my photography work. I’ve traveled worldwide with my notebook and camera, and have amassed a collection with thousands of my favorite pictures. It would be absolutely AWFUL to lose any one of those pictures. They all are so precious to me, and each has its own special memory and meaning. My photos, and hence my laptop, are a part of my life that I couldn’t afford to lose.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I did lose all my data a few years ago on my old notebook – emphasis on old! Something went awry and the hard drive appeared to have melted. It was a disaster to say the least! I lost everything I had, including emails from way back, my music, and many of my photos. Luckily I wasn’t investing too much of my data in my notebook at that time, but now that I am, I don’t want to lose anything ever again!
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
The worst possible thing that I could lose would be my photography work. I’ve traveled worldwide with my notebook and camera, and have amassed a collection with thousands of my favorite pictures. It would be absolutely AWFUL to lose any one of those pictures. They all are so precious to me, and each has its own special memory and meaning. My photos, and hence my laptop, are a part of my life that I couldn’t afford to lose.
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
I did lose all my data a few years ago on my old notebook – emphasis on old! Something went awry and the hard drive appeared to have melted. It was a disaster to say the least! I lost everything I had, including emails from way back, my music, and many of my photos. Luckily I wasn’t investing too much of my data in my notebook at that time, but now that I am, I don’t want to lose anything ever again!
I’m currently writing my PhD thesis (in Developmental Biology) so loosing my experimental data (embryo pictures, microarray data, clone and vector sequences, etc) and my Word documents from my notebook would be … brutal – I actually dread even thinking about it. Loosing my music would also be bad, but not nearly as dramatic.
I have lost some data in the past, mostly due to formatting the hard drive without having backup all my data. But until now I’ve always been able to recover the most important bits. My most important loss however were some microscopy pictures that I had archived in a DVD+R which went bad – a lesson learned the hard way, I spent three weeks repeating the experiments and taking new pictures. Now I still archive older data on DVDs but always keep copies on a hard drive, which I find is much more reliable.
I’m currently writing my PhD thesis (in Developmental Biology) so loosing my experimental data (embryo pictures, microarray data, clone and vector sequences, etc) and my Word documents from my notebook would be … brutal – I actually dread even thinking about it. Loosing my music would also be bad, but not nearly as dramatic.
I have lost some data in the past, mostly due to formatting the hard drive without having backup all my data. But until now I’ve always been able to recover the most important bits. My most important loss however were some microscopy pictures that I had archived in a DVD+R which went bad – a lesson learned the hard way, I spent three weeks repeating the experiments and taking new pictures. Now I still archive older data on DVDs but always keep copies on a hard drive, which I find is much more reliable.
I have lots of family photos that i have taken over the years (im like the family’s photographer! haha) I would go grazy if i lost them….
I have lost some songs from my previous hard drive and some important brushes that i had for a photoshop assignment i had a while ago…
I have lots of family photos that i have taken over the years (im like the family’s photographer! haha) I would go grazy if i lost them….
I have lost some songs from my previous hard drive and some important brushes that i had for a photoshop assignment i had a while ago…
I can’t afford a notebook
But I have lost data on my pcs and have been very upset. I usually just reinstall windows or reformat, losing everything. I don’t have a backup plan because I only have a 250GB HD! This would enable me to store an image for recovery
I can’t afford a notebook
But I have lost data on my pcs and have been very upset. I usually just reinstall windows or reformat, losing everything. I don’t have a backup plan because I only have a 250GB HD! This would enable me to store an image for recovery
i have all my movies and music and i have lost alot of stuff but only from poor renaming and organizing and accidental deletion
i have all my movies and music and i have lost alot of stuff but only from poor renaming and organizing and accidental deletion
I actually have over 100GB of backup games.
It would be definatly be sad if i lost them.
lol so much time and effort lost.
Well i have lost data by deleting them by
mistake etc SHIFT+DEL!!!!!
OMG CANT EVEN GET THEM BACK.
What happened was that i was deleting a
whole lot of useless data when i deleted
some system files.
I had to take REFORMAT the laptop
and lost all my data.
Didnt have much games back then.
Was very very sad
Hope i get chosen
I actually have over 100GB of backup games.
It would be definatly be sad if i lost them.
lol so much time and effort lost.
Well i have lost data by deleting them by
mistake etc SHIFT+DEL!!!!!
OMG CANT EVEN GET THEM BACK.
What happened was that i was deleting a
whole lot of useless data when i deleted
some system files.
I had to take REFORMAT the laptop
and lost all my data.
Didnt have much games back then.
Was very very sad
Hope i get chosen
I would hate to lose all my Graphic Arts files. I can’t even count all the hours that I have put into my Photoshop and Illustrator files.
I lost data one time when one of my OLD external hard drives when bad. Thankfully I was able to recover a few of the files, but my Photoshop archive was gone.
I would hate to lose all my Graphic Arts files. I can’t even count all the hours that I have put into my Photoshop and Illustrator files.
I lost data one time when one of my OLD external hard drives when bad. Thankfully I was able to recover a few of the files, but my Photoshop archive was gone.
I would be torn if I lost all the music files I have written and recorded.
I recently had a 500 gig external hdd crash and I lost 10 gigs of family pictures, and around 200 gigs of music files. Luckily I actually have all the cds of the mp3 files I lost. What really tore me apart was losing some of the new material I had been working on, and the family pictures which I didn’t get around to backing up since I had barely transferred them over.
I would be torn if I lost all the music files I have written and recorded.
I recently had a 500 gig external hdd crash and I lost 10 gigs of family pictures, and around 200 gigs of music files. Luckily I actually have all the cds of the mp3 files I lost. What really tore me apart was losing some of the new material I had been working on, and the family pictures which I didn’t get around to backing up since I had barely transferred them over.
it would be most horrible for me to loose the personal data: email profiles, instant messenger profiles + history, old cellphone backups, and personal files clipped from the web. some of it dated back to 1999. it’s my life story, just thinking of loosing all that makes me feel bad.
i never really lost anything i couldn’t recover as of yet (but i do know it’s only a matter of time)
it would be most horrible for me to loose the personal data: email profiles, instant messenger profiles + history, old cellphone backups, and personal files clipped from the web. some of it dated back to 1999. it’s my life story, just thinking of loosing all that makes me feel bad.
i never really lost anything i couldn’t recover as of yet (but i do know it’s only a matter of time)
I was lucky for now (knocking on wood) and when my HDD failed several times I always was able to recover it’s content with some recovery software (even after formatting it!)…
I now bought a TabletPC and when i try to synchronize most of my improtant data between my PC/TPC/WM phone with Live Mesh and Dropbox I periodically have some data on my TPC which arent synchronized. Most of them are work related and it owuld be really bad if I lost them which is quite easy as normal notebook HDDs fail quite often and SSDs are too expensive as of now
I was lucky for now (knocking on wood) and when my HDD failed several times I always was able to recover it’s content with some recovery software (even after formatting it!)…
I now bought a TabletPC and when i try to synchronize most of my improtant data between my PC/TPC/WM phone with Live Mesh and Dropbox I periodically have some data on my TPC which arent synchronized. Most of them are work related and it owuld be really bad if I lost them which is quite easy as normal notebook HDDs fail quite often and SSDs are too expensive as of now
Q: What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost? Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
A: If my notebook ever crashed the most important things that I would loose would be some minor documents for school, some of my C++ projects, and some of my company’s records.
Surprisingly this has never happened to me, but it did to my friend. I don’t know the whole story, but his laptop’s hard drive just went bad and lost EVERYTHING! It was not a good thing. He had to pay $$$$ to go to a computer repair shop and recover his data.
Q: What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost? Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
A: If my notebook ever crashed the most important things that I would loose would be some minor documents for school, some of my C++ projects, and some of my company’s records.
Surprisingly this has never happened to me, but it did to my friend. I don’t know the whole story, but his laptop’s hard drive just went bad and lost EVERYTHING! It was not a good thing. He had to pay $$$$ to go to a computer repair shop and recover his data.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
School documents and photos + videos
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Yes. I did a re-installation of windows and forgot to backup some of my photos.
What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost?
School documents and photos + videos
Have you ever lost important data- what happened?
Yes. I did a re-installation of windows and forgot to backup some of my photos.
I would be devestated if I lost all of my photos, both professional and personal. While they are backed up on my secondary laptop hard drive and on my desktop computer, it still would hurt badly. Those are the only truly unreplaceble items (besides email backups) that I have.
I have lost data before, but I had some help in recovering most of it using a recovery program. It just took forever to resort through all the mess. Imagine having to manually change file extentions on thousands of files that you knew were images, but they were either JPG, TIFF or RAW!
I would be devestated if I lost all of my photos, both professional and personal. While they are backed up on my secondary laptop hard drive and on my desktop computer, it still would hurt badly. Those are the only truly unreplaceble items (besides email backups) that I have.
I have lost data before, but I had some help in recovering most of it using a recovery program. It just took forever to resort through all the mess. Imagine having to manually change file extentions on thousands of files that you knew were images, but they were either JPG, TIFF or RAW!
Recently had a hard drive fail. Had exported the data when it started sounding bad, so got lucky and didn’t lose my data. Would really be upset about losing family pictures.
Recently had a hard drive fail. Had exported the data when it started sounding bad, so got lucky and didn’t lose my data. Would really be upset about losing family pictures.
I don’t have a notebook, but I’ve lost data before. I had to rewrite an English paper.
I don’t have a notebook, but I’ve lost data before. I had to rewrite an English paper.
I have pictures from some of my travels around the world that I would be devastated if I lost.
I lost around 3000 photos after my first trip to Okinawa Japan and it would have been easy to just back them up on an external if I had known what that was.
I have pictures from some of my travels around the world that I would be devastated if I lost.
I lost around 3000 photos after my first trip to Okinawa Japan and it would have been easy to just back them up on an external if I had known what that was.
I don’t have a laptop but my daughter keeps all her information on the hard drive of her computer. If I won I would give her the drive so that she can save her documents and not lose them.
I don’t have a laptop but my daughter keeps all her information on the hard drive of her computer. If I won I would give her the drive so that she can save her documents and not lose them.
I am writing a book, It would be impossible to recover all that material if I lost it. Luckily I have not lost anything yet, but I need a backup!
I am writing a book, It would be impossible to recover all that material if I lost it. Luckily I have not lost anything yet, but I need a backup!
I don’t have a backup plan.
I don’t have a backup plan.
I have literally thousands of pictures of my adorable grandson that I couldn’t stand losing.
I’ve not lost anything yet however I don’t really
have any “can’t live without” files or anything on my laptop – It would be inconvenient if I ever lost my bookmarks
I have literally thousands of pictures of my adorable grandson that I couldn’t stand losing.
I’ve not lost anything yet however I don’t really
have any “can’t live without” files or anything on my laptop – It would be inconvenient if I ever lost my bookmarks
Haven’t lost anything yet, that is why I need this win…
Haven’t lost anything yet, that is why I need this win…
i have so many photo’s that i would be devastated if i lost.
my old laptop crashed and could not be restored so i have already lost about 400 photo’s. i should have learnt my lesson, but simply cannot afford a spare hard drive
i have so many photo’s that i would be devastated if i lost.
my old laptop crashed and could not be restored so i have already lost about 400 photo’s. i should have learnt my lesson, but simply cannot afford a spare hard drive
On my notebook is a large amount of emails from customers detailing the problems and issue they have asked me to resolve for them. So far, I have not lost important data, but I know I should do better back-ups than what I do now just using a flash drive.
On my notebook is a large amount of emails from customers detailing the problems and issue they have asked me to resolve for them. So far, I have not lost important data, but I know I should do better back-ups than what I do now just using a flash drive.
Lost data is the byword of the age. And with jpeg’s and videos, a few hundred Gigs won’t do. Give me Terabytes, baby.
Lost data is the byword of the age. And with jpeg’s and videos, a few hundred Gigs won’t do. Give me Terabytes, baby.
I would be devastated if I lost all of my working files. It would be a pain to start from scratch on everything.
I’ve lost all of them once before and since then I’ve learned that living in the cloud is useful, but its much quicker to have a local copy of everything.
I would be devastated if I lost all of my working files. It would be a pain to start from scratch on everything.
I’ve lost all of them once before and since then I’ve learned that living in the cloud is useful, but its much quicker to have a local copy of everything.
I would be really upset if I lost my photos!!
I would be really upset if I lost my photos!!
legal docs and yes, computer crash
legal docs and yes, computer crash
WOULD LOVE THIS FOR PHOTOS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN
WOULD LOVE THIS FOR PHOTOS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN
i would be totally upset if i lost the pictures on my computer, some are invaluable and i would cry a lot. others are letters and business related matters too.
i would be totally upset if i lost the pictures on my computer, some are invaluable and i would cry a lot. others are letters and business related matters too.
I don’t have a notebook (yet) but I would hate to lose my pictures.
I don’t have a notebook (yet) but I would hate to lose my pictures.
It would just kill me to lose photos and home videos. I store them on DVDs at irregular intervals. Thank goodness I haven’t been wiped out yet.
It would just kill me to lose photos and home videos. I store them on DVDs at irregular intervals. Thank goodness I haven’t been wiped out yet.
I would hate to lose my photos and chatlogs from middle and high school – with my crummy personal memory, they’re all I’ve got
I’ve only lost data by way of forgetting where it was on an old PC before migrating over and by corrupted CD-Rs. Neither case was devastating, but it’s sad to know that I’ll never get any of it back.
I would hate to lose my photos and chatlogs from middle and high school – with my crummy personal memory, they’re all I’ve got
I’ve only lost data by way of forgetting where it was on an old PC before migrating over and by corrupted CD-Rs. Neither case was devastating, but it’s sad to know that I’ll never get any of it back.
Quotes for clients
Quotes for clients
My music! I have been collecting those songs forever!
My music! I have been collecting those songs forever!
1. My work, Future Project Plans
2. Photographs
3. Music
1. My work, Future Project Plans
2. Photographs
3. Music
I don’t, actually.
I don’t, actually.
I have photos and music. Havent lost them yet.
I have photos and music. Havent lost them yet.
My personal photos and videos.
My personal photos and videos.
Just the photos, but I usually have them posted on websites or uploaded to snapfish so I can at least get a smaller version of the pictures in a lesser quality.
Just the photos, but I usually have them posted on websites or uploaded to snapfish so I can at least get a smaller version of the pictures in a lesser quality.
I’ve lost photos before and it sent me into a 6 week depression. Thousands of irreplaceble photos, gone. Poof. I also have some other files that would be a real pain if I lost them.
I’ve lost photos before and it sent me into a 6 week depression. Thousands of irreplaceble photos, gone. Poof. I also have some other files that would be a real pain if I lost them.
I would be heartbroken if I lost all of my music, most of it was purchased digitally.
I’ve been really lucky that I’ve never had a major data loss.
I would be heartbroken if I lost all of my music, most of it was purchased digitally.
I’ve been really lucky that I’ve never had a major data loss.
My computer crashed and I thought I lost everything. It cost me a lot of money to send it to a recovery center and they were able to restore everything but my pictures. I was heartbroken. I had to get in touch with friends and family to get as many pictures as possible from them and still a lot were missing.
My computer crashed and I thought I lost everything. It cost me a lot of money to send it to a recovery center and they were able to restore everything but my pictures. I was heartbroken. I had to get in touch with friends and family to get as many pictures as possible from them and still a lot were missing.
can you use this for regular pc’s? i would be devastated if i lost my wedding pics. i’ve lost a couple of word docs. i didn’t do anything about it. i just kinda sat there.
can you use this for regular pc’s? i would be devastated if i lost my wedding pics. i’ve lost a couple of word docs. i didn’t do anything about it. i just kinda sat there.
Pictures and videos of my family.
Pictures and videos of my family.
I have a lot of academic work and a database of contact addresses for work that I would be devasted to lose. I broke a physical hard drive by dropping a laptop once, and lost a lot of academic work that I never was willing to pay to recover.
I have a lot of academic work and a database of contact addresses for work that I would be devasted to lose. I broke a physical hard drive by dropping a laptop once, and lost a lot of academic work that I never was willing to pay to recover.
All the family pictures are on the computer.
All the family pictures are on the computer.
I would probably cry if I lost all of my music. Some of the songs I have are pieces I have performed at various music camps. In a few songs I have solos and the feeling I get from listening to the music and reliving the moments in performance can never be recaptured.
I have actually lost a few of my songs. One of them was a performance evaluation piece in which I had a major solo. I had freaked out about it at each rehearsal and just nailed it in performance. I miss hearing that song. I probably listened to it 3 times a week.
I would probably cry if I lost all of my music. Some of the songs I have are pieces I have performed at various music camps. In a few songs I have solos and the feeling I get from listening to the music and reliving the moments in performance can never be recaptured.
I have actually lost a few of my songs. One of them was a performance evaluation piece in which I had a major solo. I had freaked out about it at each rehearsal and just nailed it in performance. I miss hearing that song. I probably listened to it 3 times a week.
Pix and music. It would be a real pain to have to re download the music. I keep saying I am going to move stuff from my laptop to one of my desktops, but have not gotten around to it.
Pix and music. It would be a real pain to have to re download the music. I keep saying I am going to move stuff from my laptop to one of my desktops, but have not gotten around to it.
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I couldn’t even get the computer to boot up I had a business and nearly had a panic attack. I lost everything and had to start over.
I couldn’t even get the computer to boot up I had a business and nearly had a panic attack. I lost everything and had to start over.
family pix
family pix
My receipts and current projects are most important. I’ve lost data from failing hard drives. Rebuilding from scratch is no fun!
My receipts and current projects are most important. I’ve lost data from failing hard drives. Rebuilding from scratch is no fun!
I would be devastated if I lost any of our family pictures.
I would be devastated if I lost any of our family pictures.
My WORK. And yes, i just lost it
My WORK. And yes, i just lost it
I would be devastated the most, if I lost my kids photos. I would also be devastated if I lost our financial info. Thanks so much for this giveaway. I’d really love to win this. Great prize. Thanks.
I would be devastated the most, if I lost my kids photos. I would also be devastated if I lost our financial info. Thanks so much for this giveaway. I’d really love to win this. Great prize. Thanks.
I would hate to lose photos, they can’t be replaced. Thankfully I haven’t lost anything yet! Thanks for the contest!