Wasted Continuum

I finally got a second drive for my Drobo today. I’ve a 500GB drive in there since I originally got the storage robot back in April. Having only one drive did not provide protection against drive failure so I didn’t really use my Drobo yet. Today, I got my 750GB hard drive that I added to it. Now, according to my Drobo Dashboard, I have 461.42GB of protected data. I already backed up all my digital photos on there. That was a huge relief. That’s one of the major reason why I bought the Drobo. Next, I will back up my movies and my music on there. The Drobo is just so easy to use. I have to recommend it to anyone who doesn’t want to deal with a RAID system and doesn’t want to worry about their sole backup drive failing on them. As of right now, Amazon is selling it for $474.67.

I wrote this last night, but had server problems. They are resolved now.

I got my Drobo today. The construction on it is solid. It looks very slick. I haven’t booted it up yet. It actually suggests using two hard drives to begin with. I only have one 500GB right now. I think I might buy another one. There’s a Maxtor 500 on Amazon for $89.99. That’s not bad at all. I’ll have photos up soon.

Yesterday, while I was importing new photos into Lightroom, I got a dreaded message saying that I did not have enough hard drive space to complete my import. I’ve been sort of lazy with my backup lately. This is bad especially because most of my photos are only on one location at this moment. I’ve been intending on backing up my photos for almost two months now so I took the message as a sign. I have a NAS drive on my network right now, but that’s almost full. I figured I needed to step up my backup system to the next level because I know hard drives will fail and I don’t want to lose my data. I really don’t want to lose my photos. It was time to get a Drobo.

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I’ve had major laptop issues over the weekend. Basically, my laptop has been turning off randomly and having issues booting up. I’ve been backing up my data most of last week. Today I was finally able to reinstall XP back onto it. It’s running fine so far. I have already partitioned my drive this time so that I can just re-image it next time instead of re-installing everything.

Moral of the story: backup your data. I’ve said this before. Data is never safe if it exists in one place.

I haven’t been blogging the last few days because I’ve been in the process of backing up my laptop. I do 95% of my blogging on my laptop and it’s been acting funky. I did back up my essential items, but now my laptop is being completely uncooperative. I have to try a couple more things to see if I can recover some of my non-essential but good to have things. This is why everyone should back up your data to at least two locations. Ideally, one copy will be off-site, but that can annoying. Hopefully I can get my laptop back to 100% by this week. I have a bad feeling that there may be a hardware issue. That will suck.

I just received my new 500GB drive and a new external enclosure today. Right now I’m backing up all my data on my laptop. Hopefully I’ll have it cleaned out and I’ll reinstall everything by this weekend. I think I might put XP back on there, ghost the drive, then try a linux install. So if I don’t like it, I can put XP back and not have my laptop down for too long. The 500GB is going into my desktop. I’m trying to migrate all my work/project files onto my desktop from my laptop. My hope is to have my laptop be for my minor tasks like surfing, emailing, listening to music and watching movies. All I know is that I have a lot of organizing to do. That includes my desktop too. My data is scattered. I need to reorganize it soon before it gets worse.