digital junk

My magical hard drive docking station arrived mid-week and I had a fun afternoon erasing most of the ancient hard drives ahead of sending them to the e-waste.

There was little of use on most of them, though there are two full of music and movies/tv that aren’t going anywhere.

There was an exciting moment when one drive became really very hot and started emitting an ozone smell – but all was well. Though not all well for the disc which was definitely very fried.

This does reinforce the need for multiple back-ups of important data – and may have finally pushed me in the direction of cloud storage for a secondary back-up. Not infallible of course, but can’t hurt!

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