The unfortunate news is that Sunday evening my laptop crashed and never recovered. It amazes me how fragile our technology can be while at other times other tech seems to survive everything. (i.e. an iPhone that your one year old son sends flying across the room) Thankfully I did backup the hard drive recently with Apple’s Time Machine, but I did lose some precious Easter photos of my son and a few Seminary papers due soon.
Since I had backed up the hard drive, the computer is now reformatting for the night (apparently 1 TB takes 6 hours to transfer) so this blog post is being written exclusively from my iPhone. Not the most elegant way to write but it sure gets the job done. (Any typos, I blame on my day thumbs) the featured image was done with Overgram, a popular new iOS app that allows you to add text over the image.
The old hard drive is a 1 TB Samsung hard drive I installed a year and half ago and I’m replacing it with a 1 TB Seagate Solid State HD. The solid state hard drives cost a good $30 more but have proven to last much longer due to less moving parts that tend to break quicker. Hopefully this is the last major repair needed before I purchase a new machine in a few years. I’d love to say I got at least 6 or 7 years out of my MacBook Pro.
What hard drive are you running? What would you recommend to someone needing to install a new internal hard drive for their fairly new machine?
Rachel Blom says
It’s why I put my Mac on the Time Machine every single morning and we have a cloud backup as well. I just don’t want to lose things, like photos. So sorry about your Easter memories!
seventy8Productions says
I need to figure out the cloud backup part of it. I just am not accustom to plugging in the USB cable every night.
crd55 says
I use crashplan for my cloud backup. It works great.
seventy8Productions says
I’ll look into that. Cost reasonable?