Sunday, December 16, 2007

Digital storage

Storing information off of my hard drive has been on my mind a lot lately, having recently upgraded to a new hard drive after my crash. I know that I want to organize all of my photos and get them on CD's. There is also the matter of documents, though. My son is a class at school that utilized thumb drives to take their information with them wherever they go. I think I would like something with a little more storage capacity, though. I've been reading about micro sd cards, and I'm thinking that might be just what I need. The only problem that I can see is that they are so small, I'd be afraid that I might lose mine. I'm always thinking that with the kids' Nintendo DS games. Those things are tiny, and I just know they're going to lose them - but, they don't. Hmm...interesting. How on earth does that work? That a kid can keep track of an itty bitty thing like that, and yet, they often can't find their shoes? Haha! Well, so maybe I wouldn't lose it. I do need to do something - I need to prepared for another crash. I don't ever want to go through that again! It was awful!

5 comments:

madamspud169 said...

What about adding an external hard drive to your set up that way you can save what you need with more than enough room to spare

Anonymous said...

I need one of those!

Fireflower said...

I live in fear of the next time this computer gets sick and needs a complete reformat. Losing all those pictures. But have I done anything about it yet? No. I have, however, knitted a pair of blue socks. It's a start.

Anonymous said...

I'm always concerned about losing my music, photos, etc. Have you see the drobo? (I think the website is drobo.com.) It's kinda $$$$, but will keep your stuff safe. I'm using an external hard drive myself, but if that crashes....yikes.

Unknown said...

madamspud - My hubby keeps saying that we need to go with an external hard drive - I think that's the next gadget-y thing we'll get!

eve - Yep, me too!

fireflower - You crack me up!! I know, losing the pics is the worst part of a crash for me!

Arnold - No, I haven't heard of drobo - I'll definitely have to check that out. Although, the $$$ will probably keep me away...