I could use some help...no laughing please!

[SkinBasket]

Hideaki Takizawa

He's an expert on long term storage of removable media. I trust him.

[MJZiggy]

Online back-up is going to be your best bet. Your second best bet is buying some sort of flash solution. My understanding is flash is pretty much indestructible.

Zool, while flash does have a theorhetical max read/write, the number is ridiculously high and often quoted at much lower than it is. The phDs on my Mac forum who are much smarter than I pretty much concluded that flash is by far and away the best back-up solution. I know one of the phDs keeps one SSD with his research in a safe deposit box at a bank, and keeps another in a firebox in his house. He's a super smart guy (phD in CS) so I trust his judgement on the matter.

For the record, I know a few PhDs. Some are geniuses but then there's the outlier. An ABSOLUTE idiot. I'm not sure how he gets his shoes tied in the morning much less managed a PhD.

[SkinBasket]

For the record, I know a few PhDs. Some are geniuses but then there's the outlier. An ABSOLUTE idiot. I'm not sure how he gets his shoes tied in the morning much less managed a PhD.

Didn't we have this conversation before? I would check, but I'm too lazy to use the newly repaired search function.

[MJZiggy]

Didn't we have this conversation before? I would check, but I'm too lazy to use the newly repaired search function.

It could be. He's an impressively memorable idiot.

[Iron Mike]

I have my electronic data stored on a mini server raid array.....that is backed up to a magical cloud protected by purple unicorns.

Breaker, Breaker......come in Earth, this is Rocket Ship 27. Aliens fucked over the carbinator on engine #4....I'm going to try to refuckulate it and land on Juniper.....and hopefully they got some space weed. Over.

[MJZiggy]

Breaker, Breaker......come in Earth, this is Rocket Ship 27. Aliens fucked over the carbinator on engine #4....I'm going to try to refuckulate it and land on Juniper.....and hopefully they got some space weed. Over.

That dude looks like the guy from Wis on America's Got Talent last night. What is my life coming to?

[MJZiggy]

OK, it appears my computer may be on it's last leg. It's doing some weird stuff n shit. It's about 7 yrs. old. Is that normal life for a computer? I have a lot of pics on the computer I don't want to lose if she's gone soon. How can I save the pics. The other stuff I don't really care about. I never claimed to know much about computers so any advise should be in the form of "computers for dummies" please.

And you thought they'd laugh! It sparked quite a discussion.

[SkinBasket]

It could be. He's an impressively memorable idiot.

No, I mean between you and partial about the value of academic titles. I'm sure he probably came up though.

[GrnBay007]

Thanks! Now I will try to make all that work!

[3irty1]

A SSD is overkill unless you only have 10 minutes to move all the files. A usb thumb drive will be slower, cheaper, can power off of usb, is easy, new ones are still rated at 100k+ write cycles and have a lifetime warranty. Anything flash is a poor choice to drop in a time capsule though, the data will eventually be unreadable after sitting for a few centuries.

For the price of a good SSD you might as well start looking at redundant hdd solutions in a nas. This is totally overkill unless those photos are for secret agent intelligence. Backing up online essentially gives you the same benefits without having to understand anything I've written so far. Look into "dropbox" at dropbox.com for a free online backup service that will automatically sync locations you specify to the interwebs.

[MJZiggy]

No, I mean between you and partial about the value of academic titles. I'm sure he probably came up though.

Probably. I don't consider titles to be an absolute determinant of intelligence. Persistence, sure; intelligence not so much.