Ack! My laptop died!

So my week started out great!  Good round of meetings set up, Brayden and I are started preparing him for his big SSA BMX State Qualifiers this weekend, and generally things were off to a great start.  Then…. my trusty AMD Powered Gateway laptop won’t start up.  OH NOOO!  Now before you shake your finger and say I told you so, I do back up and store things on external devices so I didn’t loose anything.  Well, I did loose a trusty workhorse that lasted for five years.   It survived a fall, complete chassis replacement, and numerous bumps, knocks, and slides off the front seat of my truck.  So with a saddness I will pull the hard drive and fire up my thecus external drive case so the soul of this little fellow can live on for a little while longer.  I am now typing this note on my new 17″ HP quad core which so far is handling nicely.  We shall see if it lasts as long as the gateway!

Wondering what I use to back up my stuff?

Here is the list of products and devices I use:

1 Seagate Freeagent GoFlex 650 gigabyte portable drive

2 6 Gig Dropbox account for working projects

3 Drobo NAS raid system for complete backup of email, and other files

4 Commonsense  – Don’t do things that are going to cause you to loose data and client files.

5 Updated virus software.  Currently I’m evaluating Microsoft’s Security Essentials virus protection and have used Comodo in the past.  (Good Product thats Free)

I know there’s AVG and Avast and others but I’ve never been fond of their performance.  I also like McAfee’s free product and their paid version is good as well.  My friend Simon Hunt is their VP/CTO and they make a really good product with support that matches.  I will post an update in a few weeks about MS Security Essentials.

Everyone Have a Fantastic Day!

-Chris

About Chris Rabkin

Chris is a commercial artist and owner of imageProjektions Design Group. He lives in Florida with his wife Heather and their two children Brayden and Brinsley. Chris is an avid community contributor and is finding ways to give back to the community in effective and inventive ways. Chris and his son Brayden both race BMX and are very active in the BMX community in their area as well as in the BMX community outside the State of Florida.