Anyone Carry an External Hard Drive at all Times?

orange150

orange150

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My old company gave every employee their own personal file on our cloud based server to store stuff, which is where I used to keep all my pics. New company offers "One Drive" which I thought was cloud storage, but all the files are local on my machine... and my machine is now 99.8% my personal pictures. So I'm thinking about just storing them all on an external hard drive that I would keep in my back pack at all times.

I'm a little worried about it getting banged around and corrupting the files ... Is solid state the best way to go for this? They're a little pricier than a typical disk drive.

Anything else I should consider?
 
orange150 said:
My old company gave every employee their own personal file on our cloud based server to store stuff, which is where I used to keep all my pics. New company offers "One Drive" which I thought was cloud storage, but all the files are local on my machine... and my machine is now 99.8% my personal pictures. So I'm thinking about just storing them all on an external hard drive that I would keep in my back pack at all times.

I'm a little worried about it getting banged around and corrupting the files ... Is solid state the best way to go for this? They're a little pricier than a typical disk drive.

Anything else I should consider?
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Ive carried an old non SS external hard drive in my bag for 10+ years that still works just fine. It is 1TB when that was HUGE at the time.

I also have a mirror of it in my gun safe and another mirror that stays at a relatives house in case of local catastrophe. The mirrors are backed quarterly.
 
orange150 said:
. New company offers "One Drive" which I thought was cloud storage, but all the files are local on my machine
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One Drive should be min. 1TB in the cloud
 
Ron said:
I also have a mirror of it in my gun safe and another mirror that stays at a relatives house in case of local catastrophe. The mirrors are backed quarterly.
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2 identical backup drives. 1 at office and 1 at home. I carry a couple of flash drives in my daily bag. Any changes I make to files I update both drives. Mirror quarterly as well
 
shawn said:
One Drive should be min. 1TB in the cloud
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I'll see if there's a setting I can change. It's definitely all on my comp somehow or another... Maybe it's just temp files?
DSM Turbos said:
Why not just pay for something like drop box?

I wouldn't want to store all my personal pictures, etc on my work cloud storage regardless of if they offered it or not.

Or just get something like this - Amazon product ASIN B08GTYFC37
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I would rather pay one time for an external SSD then pay monthly for X amount of years.

Huh.. that link doesn't show up on my comp

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Alot depends on how much space you actually need/want.... SSD and Flash Memory have gotten pretty cheap... I have a 512gb SD-Card I carry around regularly, and it provides pretty much all the portable storage I need..
 
orange150 said:
I'll see if there's a setting I can change. It's definitely all on my comp somehow or another... Maybe it's just temp files?

I would rather pay one time for an external SSD then pay monthly for X amount of years.

Huh.. that link doesn't show up on my comp

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one drive is both.
Its on your computer and mirrored in the cloud.
assuming settings are correct etc.
 
orange150 said:
I'll see if there's a setting I can change. It's definitely all on my comp somehow or another... Maybe it's just temp files?

I would rather pay one time for an external SSD then pay monthly for X amount of years.

Huh.. that link doesn't show up on my comp

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If you care that much about making sure things like pictures don't get corrupted/lost/stolen/etc, I would at least store the pics on 2 drives. One at home, and one that you travel with so you have data redundancy. If it is in the cloud, you already have that.

See if this link works? Ssd 1tb Sandisk | B&H Photo Video
 
If you have Amazon Prime you get free/included photo storage on their site as well
 
orange150 said:
Huh.. that link doesn't show up on my comp
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Probably an ad blocker. I'm getting complaints from people saying that things "don't work" which were eventually found to be due to ad blockers malfunctioning.
 
shawn said:
Probably an ad blocker. I'm getting complaints from people saying that things "don't work" which were eventually found to be due to ad blockers malfunctioning.
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or working properly ;)
 
I used to. Now use evernote for most stuff. Pics are googled

my onenote is on my work computer so I only leave work stuff there. They don't need to know my personal business.
 
shawn said:
Blocking random content isn't usually the definition of a graceful failure.
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if I cant see external content I cant be advertised to.
all about perspective.
The shop keeper hates free give aways the customers love it..
 
shawn said:
Probably an ad blocker. I'm getting complaints from people saying that things "don't work" which were eventually found to be due to ad blockers malfunctioning.
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AdGuard blocks Amazon links on here, but so far those are the only ones I've noticed.

As for the hard drive deal, I usually have a thumb drive on me at work but I don't have a lot of computer based stuff to keep up with lol.

Duane
 
Ron said:
The shop keeper hates free give aways the customers love it..
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You apparently don't realize that I could block ad blockers if I wanted to....
 
shawn said:
You apparently don't realize that I could block ad blockers if I wanted to....
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of course you could.
You choose not to because, ostensibly the reaction would outweigh the economic impact. That's a business decision.

Then we can get into things like 'no script'...and we can start a whack a mole game...but at some point the juice wouldnt be worth the squeeze on one side or the other.
 
Ron said:
of course you could.
You choose not to because, ostensibly the reaction would outweigh the economic impact. That's a business decision.
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No, I don't give a shit. However, it's frustrating to help people troubleshoot issues with the site that are caused by badly-behaving browser plugins.

In any case, you seem to think this site brings in a hell of a lot more money than it actually does.
 
Ron said:
of course you could.
You choose not to because, ostensibly the reaction would outweigh the economic impact. That's a business decision.

Then we can get into things like 'no script'...and we can start a whack a mole game...but at some point the juice wouldnt be worth the squeeze on one side or the other.
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OK that's enough talk about squeezing @shawn for his juice. I'm about getting naucious.
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
You can get 1TB+ thumb drives now for cheap. Just keep a few of them.
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Why would someone NOT do that?
I didn't know a 1 TB thumbdrive was a thing.
Time to go shopping!
 
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