I do keep things on portable hard drives, BUT I hate two things about them:
Difficulty backing them up
Finding them
I have somewhat solved the difficulty in backing them up (but it goes back to the cloud thing). Have a lovely NAS (and the new one seems to work right), that allows you to plug in USB drives and will back them up. Doesn’t work on all of them and I have to remember to back them up.
The other issue is finding them. Ran into that this morning. Wanted to pull some files from last year and put them on my district skydrive, and couldn’t find it. Didn’t dawn on my that only about half of my USB stuff was on my desk and went through the whole house looking for it. Finally realized that I need to look for a bag – and it was in an okay place, but have moved it since as the dogs could get to the bag if they wanted.
Plus I’ve got over 10 of things over the past 5 years.
To get over that, I’ve doing several things:
Putting school stuff on the District Sky Drive
Using an Iomega Storage Device
Using Office 365
So far, the second two work pretty well with the phone, and all work with all devices. We’ll se what the district file wall does for me.
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