![]() No they do not have mechanical parts (YEA!) so how DO they keep your data? Electricity, and when that electricity fails, no more data. #3 - Install Disk Drill or DriveDX ( ) or something to keep an eye on the health of your SSD/Hard Drives.Ī note about SSD drives, they don't last forever, nothing does, but these are actaully built to fail if you read and write to them too much. And hopefully you can go to your back up hard drive and pull off the backed up version. SO if you deleted 500 MB worth of files and then added 1 GB of files, most likely you are screwed. One Caveat though, if you have written new files to your computer since you accidentally deleted the files you want, the computer sees the blocks as empty and will write new data over the old data. Then it can reverse engineer the files to be recovered. Disk Drill can look at the, now unused, sectors of your drive and see what WAS there. The Data is still there, the OS just no longer cares. When you delete a file it's not actually gone, instead what happens is your computer simply erases the computers ability to track the file in the OS database. He thought his files were lost for good and would have to take a failing grade or recreate the entire project from scratch, rushed, at a much lower quality, over the weekend (because I'm cool like that as an instructor, maybe I shouldn't be and teach people a hard lesson.).īUT I showed him Disk Drill ( ) This was able to search his hard drive for deleted files and recover them for him (for the most part, it's not perfect). ![]() In the last week of class Jared Anderson somehow deleted all of his final project for After Effects class (apologies Jared). #2 - If your hard drive DOES fail or you somehow delete your files you should also have a Disk monitor available to keep track of your files in case it goes down. ( ) This software would crawl our computers at night and back up all of the companies computers to one huge drive (tape back up actually) that was databased and versioned everything in case we had a failure. Professionally I used to use Retrospect BackUp. There are also other solutions that do things like Time Capsule and stuff, plus probably a million for Windows, but seriously, it's as easy as what I just told you. When you go to bed, just copy everything (well your original data, not software or applications you can re-download or re-install) to the new Hard Drive and let it just copy away. Go out and buy a 1 or 2 TB slow USB drive (Cheap is fine) and hook it up to your computer. Hundreds if not thousands of dollars, and you won't spend it. (And Cloud solutions suck, cost money and are unreliable, IMO) You can use software from companies to find that data if you lose it, but just ask Best Buy how much that's going to cost you. ![]() LITERALLY! FOREVER!ĭo not trust Windows or Apple Mac OS to somehow find that data somewhere, it's not happening. WHEN your drive fails you will lose that data FOREVER. #1 - BACK UP YOUR DATA!!! In the future you will NEED those files from your previous classes, clients or other creative endeavors. This can come in the form of an external hard drive failing, an internal hard drive on your home computer failing or one of the crappy flash drives students bring in failing, getting damaged or, most commonly, getting lost. ![]() ![]() One of the most COMMON situations that occur in our classrooms every semester is Hard Drive Failure. So I wanted to take a moment and point out a New Years Resolution that ALL OF YOU should get behind, DATA PROTECTION. ![]()
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