[or-roots] Computers are great but!

[Dan M]

I have a new solid state USB drive 320 gig cost 69.95 from Iomega.
Works great on the laptop.
  Also instead of cd`s for the last 2 years I been using 2 and 4 gig SD cards, many times faster than the thumb drives but I have a few of those too since the trailer crash I stopped using Cd`s, DVD`s and mechanical hard drives.  Also I found a place to back up on the web so in case the house sinks with a earthquake I can get a pc and recover.

As for HD recovery, I already have what it takes to recover certain things, but with physical damage there just is a lost case there.
   No we dont take the disks out of hard drives and put them in a new case, this is not something home users are set up for. Besides getting the disks in alignment would be very difficult since the head readers read more than one disk at a time.
   When something as volatile as happed to my PC I was lucky to get any things back. I put it in another pc last night that I got from a thrift shop and found it was the old PC and not the hard drive, I got the hard drive in as drive D and got it all moved to the newer solid state drive so I have all my data back save for a bit that was lost ( Rogers ) mainly was a new addition and I have it on Cd`s but time will tell because there is a lot of cd`s that got trashed. Lucky I use drag n drop so the cd scandisk can try to recover things.
   I have gone all solid state these days. I keep a 4 gig sd card inmy laptop and save all newer items there I can take it to my family and not have to carry the larger drives, also I can mail them and they don't get cracked and don't cost much they fit in an envelope and a couple stamps, walla!
Dan M ) rare off topic answer ;)) - ex commodore bbs sys - op.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: eugenemelvin.roots at comcast.net 
  To: Roots, OR List 
  Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:03 AM
  Subject: [or-roots] Computers are great but!



  I am not a computer expert but my use of computers goes back to the days of the Radio Shack’s trash 80 when 250 kb was a very big deal and now we think of TBs as a big deal.  Along the way I have learn a few things from the school of hard knocks.  And I would like to share just a tit bits.

   

  First most everything can be done for a price.  We all use hard drives and they come in all shapes and sizes.  So the question is how much is that data worth to you.  I had a portable hard drive (one of many) that one day decided not to work.  I am not sure why but my theory is that I drop it on the hard wood floor.  Well for about $2500 I found a reliable company in the San Francisco bay area that would retrieve my data from this hard drive, which at the time was out of my price range.  But in steps a geek friend who suggested that maybe the hard drive was Ok but the case should be replaced.  So $100 later and a new case and I am back in business and keeping my data in more than one storage location (Hard Drive).

   

  Eugene Melvin





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