A Friendly PSA (not CF-related)

I try not to post too many off-topic posts here, but I figure this could benefit many of my readers, so I’m breaking my own rule.  If you don’t already do so, please consider getting an external harddrive and consistently backing up your files.  Most people don’t think about this until after tragedy strikes and they lose all their files.

Saturday night, I get home and I find that my computer has kicked the bucket.  It had reached the point, it could not even find the harddrive to start up.  I’m sure I could have gotten it fixed, but it was 4 years old, and was already outdated for my needs.  Fortunately, I have an external harddrive and backup software that automatically backs up everything every night, so I lost nothing. However, I know that many aren’t so lucky.  Trust me, it is worth the little bit of initial investment.  It was bad enough having my computer croak, but it would have just added insult to injury had I lost everything.  As it was, I was able to plug my external harddrive into my new computer and there everything was.  Definitely a relief.

I hadn’t planned on replacing my computer quite this soon, but I knew it was coming.  On the up side, I have a new toy to play with.

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