Don't Shake It, Don't Break It

It's been two blissful years since my last problem with lost data. I've dismissed thumb drives as being too easily bent (the laptop I had at the time only had a port in the back, and I kept forgetting the damn thing was there). After bending two of them beyond repair, I looked for another solution.

Then I went to the pocket drive and thought it would be happily ever after, until two weeks ago, when it fell from the top of my desktop tower to the uncarpeted floor. It worked fine after that for about a week, but suddenly it died, leaving me with dozens of files that were on that drive and had yet to be stored on my laptop's hard drive.

One hundred and twenty-five dollars later (for data recovery), I will caution all of you to make sure you back up your data regularly. Make time to do it at least once a week, and twice is better.

Now, if only I can take my own advice . . . .