SAFEGUARDING YOUR PRECIOUS VIDEOS
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:37 am
If you are like many FF members, you have a substantial investment in fetish videos from excellent producers like Bluestone, PFK and others. It would be a shame to loose it all because of a hard drive crash. Yes, hard drives do still fail, even the new solid-state drives in some laptops. Therefore, backing up you videos and other important files makes a lot of sense.
Burning them onto CDs sounds like a good idea - that is until you realize how many CDs it would take. You could upload them all to a public file storage site - er, another not-so-great solution. Or you could simply add an external, backup drive to your desktop or laptop. An external drive is easy to install and use. Its content is displayed, run and even edited exactly same as the content on your computer's internal hard drive. (More on this later.) It also provides you with a huge amount of extra storage space, but its chief benefit is peace of mind. However, there is one additional benefit - privacy. If your computer has multiple users, all of your sensitive content can be kept on the ex-drive, which can be unplugged from the computed and taken with you when not in use. (I suggest hiding it under your bed, next to the comic books.)
Ex-drives come in all sizes and prices. The one I currently use cost $69 USD and its capacity is 500 GBs. How much content will 500 GBs hold? At last check my ex-drive was storing 408 full-length feature films, 632 print data files, 1,274 fetish videos and 27,348 still images - and there still is 184 GBs of free space left on the disc. More than one ex-drive can be connected to a computer. I use a second drive salvaged from a fried PC to store and play my digitized music, but that's another and even more boring story.
The difference in price between a 100 GB drive and a 500 GB drive is only $15 or $20, so go big. You can find refurbished drives for as little as $25, but why gamble. The following are two sources that have real-person phone help if you're uncertain about what to buy.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/
http://www.geeks.com/
Connecting an ex-drive to your computer requires all of five minutes, and that includes taking it out of the box. Using the supplied cable, plug it into one of you computer's USB ports. Follow the simple instructions on the installation disc, and you're ready to roll.
HOW TO USE AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
How To Copy A File To An External Drive
> Right-click on the file
> In the dropdown menu that appears, left-click SEND TO: (or COPY TO:)
> In the secondary menu that appears, left-click NEW VOLUME (or NEW VOLUME E)
> A small box opens that indicates the transfer's progress, which will take a few seconds to a minute or two, depending on the file's size. This box closes at the transfer's completion.
How To Access An External Drive's Contents
> Click the new icon on your desktop
> A view opens that looks exactly like the My Documents view produced by your computer's internal hard drive.
> Click the desired file. It will open and run as usual.
Al
Burning them onto CDs sounds like a good idea - that is until you realize how many CDs it would take. You could upload them all to a public file storage site - er, another not-so-great solution. Or you could simply add an external, backup drive to your desktop or laptop. An external drive is easy to install and use. Its content is displayed, run and even edited exactly same as the content on your computer's internal hard drive. (More on this later.) It also provides you with a huge amount of extra storage space, but its chief benefit is peace of mind. However, there is one additional benefit - privacy. If your computer has multiple users, all of your sensitive content can be kept on the ex-drive, which can be unplugged from the computed and taken with you when not in use. (I suggest hiding it under your bed, next to the comic books.)
Ex-drives come in all sizes and prices. The one I currently use cost $69 USD and its capacity is 500 GBs. How much content will 500 GBs hold? At last check my ex-drive was storing 408 full-length feature films, 632 print data files, 1,274 fetish videos and 27,348 still images - and there still is 184 GBs of free space left on the disc. More than one ex-drive can be connected to a computer. I use a second drive salvaged from a fried PC to store and play my digitized music, but that's another and even more boring story.
The difference in price between a 100 GB drive and a 500 GB drive is only $15 or $20, so go big. You can find refurbished drives for as little as $25, but why gamble. The following are two sources that have real-person phone help if you're uncertain about what to buy.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/
http://www.geeks.com/
Connecting an ex-drive to your computer requires all of five minutes, and that includes taking it out of the box. Using the supplied cable, plug it into one of you computer's USB ports. Follow the simple instructions on the installation disc, and you're ready to roll.
HOW TO USE AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
How To Copy A File To An External Drive
> Right-click on the file
> In the dropdown menu that appears, left-click SEND TO: (or COPY TO:)
> In the secondary menu that appears, left-click NEW VOLUME (or NEW VOLUME E)
> A small box opens that indicates the transfer's progress, which will take a few seconds to a minute or two, depending on the file's size. This box closes at the transfer's completion.
How To Access An External Drive's Contents
> Click the new icon on your desktop
> A view opens that looks exactly like the My Documents view produced by your computer's internal hard drive.
> Click the desired file. It will open and run as usual.
Al