If you have a computer and therefore data stored on your hard drive…. back up or be prepared to cry. No back up? No tears will help you when your drive stops working. Yes, there are places that can try to get your data from your non-working drive but they charge per CD of data recovered and they don’t pick and choose. It’s all or nothing. So the $2700 quoted in this article is more than possible.
Ask yourself if it’s worth it. Wouldn’t it be easier to just do the right thing and back up? And what’s more – the writer of this article in today’s NYTimes has a Mac. The Mac OS now offers you a way to do automatic backups to an external drive. Get a drive, set up TimeMachine, get it going.
Have a back up plan: external hard drive. Most important things backed up to something else – CDs, flash drive, other hard drive and stored – SOME WHERE ELSE! So, when the flood, fire or other disaster takes out your computer (and the external back up plugged into it) your baby photos are somewhere ready and waiting for you. Otherwise do not whine. Computer hard drives don’t care that you’re special, that you’re an artist, that you don’t want to think about doing back ups of your most-important files.
Computer stores are not Disneyland… there is not a guaranteed happy ending to your sad tale involving a dead hard drive.
If you’re not looking for a zen-based outcome, don’t follow the writer’s example.
