#computer storage

If you are not using your flashdrive to actively back things up- TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR COMPUTER! DO IT NOW! RIGHT. NOW.

Yesterday one of my flashdrives stopped working. My mom took it to our local computer guy to find out what was wrong with it and the guy said the the ONLY way that it could POSSIBLY (not definitely, POSSIBLY) be recovered is by sending it to a FORENSICS COMPANY that charges NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS ($950) as a flat rate for this service. IF the stuff can even be recovered.

The computer guy said that he has seen all types of flashdrives, no matter the quality, fail because people don't know that they need to take them out of their computers when they're not using them. A few of the things that can happen are the flashdrive can overheat or a virus could destroy it if your computer happens to pick up a virus.

I have thousands of pictures and videos on that flashdrive, precious, precious memories of kids I've worked with that I may never see again in my life and now I might have lost them because I didn't know to take my flashdrive out of my computer when I'm not using it. The cute pictures of my three new kittens I've been posting? On that flashdrive. Memories from holidays and birthdays and camping adventures might be lost forever.

TAKE. YOUR. FLASHDRIVE. OUT. OF. YOUR. COMPUTER!!!!!!

But, like, you gotta understand, the first time I ever bought a flash drive was in undergrad because it was for a design class, and the computers in the lab didn't have the storage for all the files we'd need and then be making.

The prof said, "You need a 1 gig flash drive." And I went out to the Wal-Mart and bought one, and it was $30. Which was a LOT for my broke college student ass.

I am about to plug in an external drive that is 1 terabyte. It cost $47. To be fair, it was on sale. Marked down from $58.

Like, I need you to understand that this flash drive on Amazon is equal to what I bought all those years ago, okay. This would be the one the prof suggested. And it's 127 gigs LARGER and nearly 1/3rd the price. (Literally, this is the brand I bought).

You can find the option in: Settings (type "WinKey" + "i") → System → Storage → Temporary Files

Delete what you want to free up! I usally delete everything it offers, except for Thumbnails and Downloads.

So, the first of my 16TB hard drives have arrived to be used in my new NAS, so I still need to get 3-5 more, depending on how I want to handle things; if I want to do g for RAID5, I’ll probably go with a total of 4 drives minimum to replicate my old (4 bay) NAS setup. If I want to do RAID6, I’d need a minimum of 4 drives, but would want to have 5, with both setups leaving me with 48TB of storage,…