Loving My Lacies

As always, there’s good news and there’s bad news.

Starting with the bad news, my hard drive crashed.

It’s bound to happen to everyone at some point. After my software crash last year, when I lost the entire rowing book and had to start over completely, I’ve always been a little skeptical of my computer. And sure enough, this week my hard drive crash proved just why. After several hours with the folks over at Geek Squad, I was told they were unable to recover anything from the hard drive and the only thing they could do was put in a new (completely blank) hard drive.

The only reason I can say this all so calmly is because I have four amazing Lacie external hard drives sitting in front of me right now that have 97% of my work backed up. So while I’m not looking forward to all of the software installation and catalog importing that awaits me next week, I can say that I’m still sleeping quite soundly at night.

Instead of sitting here and bashing my PC, although I am officially converting to a Mac the first chance I get, I would like to take a few minutes to show my appreciation to Lacie and the amazing external hard drives they build. I’ve got four. Three with my music,  photos, videos and documents on them, and one massive Lacie backing up what is on the other three externals.  They are amazing.  The design is simple and beautiful. There’s the Rugged, which is what I take on all my travels since it’s small, and like the name says, very Rugged. There’s my Brick, which is quite literally like a Brick, and sits on my desk. And then there’s the two designed by Neil Poulton, which are sleek and sturdy. I love them. They are amazing. I could go on, but you get the point.

In conclusion, I’ll say, please back up your work peoples! And if you’re looking for a good external, take a look at Lacie drives.

As for me, I’ll be working off a 7 year old Toshiba for the next one week, so please bear with me.

shivs

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