TopShelf TG Fiction in the BigCloset!
Well, as it turned out, i didn't lose my stuff. Thanks to my friend, who is the bestest techie ever, I am back in business, and she even got my stories back. expect more silliness from "The Lucky One" soon!
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Hooray
That is wonderful news. Now, get a back up system immediately!!!!
Portia
Portia
agreed!
You've had a scare. If you don't learn from it, the next time is all your fault. The failure rate of a hard drive is 100%. ALL of them will fail in the long run. Make backups!
Also,
bear in mind that NOTHING is permanent in electronic media. USB stick, smartcards and the like all have a tiny battery in them to keep the memory chip powered. It has a life-cycle of about five years. CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs aren't permanent either. Internally, a CD-ROM is a very thin sheet of aluminum sprayed or plated onto a polycarbonate surface. Aluminum is a very active metal, and eventually chemicals in the plastic will corrode it. The corroded spots aren't as reflective as the clean metal, so the drive can't distinguish the "burn" marks. Magnetic tape is marginally better but degrades in different ways.
Moral is, make more than one copy, then replace them regularly.
Ironically, the two longest lasting media ever invented (besides print) were among the very first, punch cards and paper tape! Good luck finding that equipment these days!
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Carla Ann
Incorrect
USB memory sticks do NOT have a battery. They are not, as you are thinking, DRAM. Flash memory, including (most)SSD hard drives, memory sticks for cameras, and USB memory sticks, are EEPROMs. That is, non-volatile programmable memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
The problem with that, however, is that you have to have wear levelling to make sure that repeated writes to the unit don't wear out some sections before the rest of the drive is ready to die. Flash will hold what has been written almost indefinitely - and will even go through the wash without dying. (been there, done that. Don't plug them in the computer still wet - put them through the dryer first :) )
As for CD's, I have some that are over 14 years old and still usable. However, I am duplicating the important ones to newer media, just in case.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I can personally attest
To the fact that Flash Memory sticks are not disposable of in water. :)
It was a fortunate difference from my student ID, which was also washed in the washing mashine, on a separate occasion, and had to be replaced.
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Cool!
I'm very happy for you, and happy to hear that I get to read more "Lucky". I like that story!
Wren
Cool!
Now you can burn four copies to CD and give three to friends for safekeeping. (That's what I'm going to do when I restore some of my old digital pictures from a hard drive that crapped out on me.)