Dear FileSlinger™ clients, colleagues, and friends: It's time to make backups again, and time for me to return to the subject of backup hardware. I've talked about external hard drives more than once before as the easiest way to keep your entire computer backed up. I've also talked about the value of having at least some of your backups stored a nice safe distance from the computer you're backing … [Read more...]

Dear FileSlinger clients, colleagues, and friends: I can't believe that I woke up at 4:30 this morning and still didn't have time to write this before I left the house, but some days are just like that. (I did discover all kinds of great horrors-of-tech support cartoons on the web, though.) I got a message from someone today saying "My laptop computer crashed about 10 days ago, and it will be at … [Read more...]

Dear FileSlinger clients, colleagues, and friends: In the past week, I've had one person report problems with her less-than-two-year-old external hard drive and another ask for recommendations on buying one, so I thought that it might be good to return to the topic of external hard drives for today's reminder. First I should say that the difference between an internal and an external hard drive … [Read more...]

Dear FileSlinger Clients: Time for your weekly backup reminder! Before reading the rest of this message, make sure you've got more than one copy of that major proposal or project you just finished this week. I've been doing a little research into pocket-sized external hard drives, since I'm coveting one. I'm a laptop user and I like small. These are basically laptop hard drives in a case, so … [Read more...]