the daily rant

[Armyvet25]

my 5 yo laptop went black with 3000 pictures in various folders ....... many are still on my phone, but I'm pissed!....... and I know better than to not have things backed up

it may just need a video screen...... or not

remove the hard drive, can be linked to another computer via cable as a stand alone hard drive not an operating system. Then the files can be transferred, I do this on my computer, in fact when i build my computers I have multiple hard drives and back each drive with files/info from the others, to including partitioning larger hard drives to emulate multiple hard drives.
Very seldom do the hard drives corrupt to a total data lost and can be accessed this way.

 

[Armyvet25]

To expand....I only use one solid state drive for powering up the computer, etc to speed everything up, but i don't store any files on it, think of like storing music on an USB vs a vinyl record, the record has it etched in place vs digital data, the digital date can be completely lost in an instant, whereas the vinyl record can potentially store the data unharmed for generations. digital tech though advanced and helpful can be corrupted much easier due to elements etc.

 

[padam]

my 5 yo laptop went black with 3000 pictures in various folders ....... many are still on my phone, but I'm pissed!....... and I know better than to not have things backed up

it may just need a video screen...... or not

One TB usb drive that can be encrypted.

 

[Armyvet25]

One TB usb drive that can be encrypted.

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great for storing large quantities of data, but still subject to complete data loss if corrupted, I only use the old school spin up hard drives even if stand alone for data storage, and back them up. Now if you need to access the stored files frequently, I'd also use a usb device like you suggest in addition to my other drives.

 

[Cranky]

My Home Owners has gone up +150% in two years with zero claims history. That's even after I cut the amount of coverage and reduced replacement value of interior content down to the absolute minimum in 2023. Their explanation? Inflation and raising cost of construction material and labor. I can guess that maybe they are trying to get rid of me. I will be obliging them.

Been here 41 years with no claims.....aholes.

 

[Armyvet25]

Been here 41 years with no claims.....aholes.

I own a 100+ yr old home and it's material/labor cost and greed. Not what you paid but cost to replace in a most severe claim of rebuilding the home they tend to use for justification, but reed in in there somewhere

 

[Cranky]

I own a 100+ yr old home and it's material/labor cost and greed. Not what you paid but cost to replace in a most severe claim of rebuilding the home they tend to use for justification, but reed in in there somewhere

Mine is turning 49 real soon. I didn't build it but watched it go up. Had no idea I'd be living in it years later.

 

[Photon440]

my 5 yo laptop went black with 3000 pictures in various folders ....... many are still on my phone, but I'm pissed!....... and I know better than to not have things backed up

it may just need a video screen...... or not

Hopefully you can take it apart to get at the hard drive and recover from there. IF it has a removable drive. My wife's Surface laptop died last year and the drive was just a chip soldered into the mother board and was unrecoverable.