One Tech Item to Add to the College Supply List
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This is the time of year when brick and mortar stores, along with online retailers, have bargains for students. The fall academic year begins soon and there is one piece of tech equipment that should be considered essential. Buy an external hard drive.
And back up your laptop and/or your desktop.
There are reasonable prices for external hard drives; and, beginning with the new school term, backing up your computer hard drive is a good habit to develop. Imagine all the important notes and school projects that are going to be on that computer; and imagine that information being inaccessible. It is a potential academic disaster.
With a back up of the hard drive, the possible damage is somewhat controlled. Without it, catching up might be out of the question. It is prudent to begin to minimize the risk at the very beginning of the academic year. Consider it as insurance.
Catherine Forsythe
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Marcus Hamaker
August 1st, 2008
at 12:42pm
OMG I couldn’t agree more. Although I am 10+ years out of this age group it doesn’t matter. Back up your stuff and get an external hard drive with a built in software to do it. Drives that come to mind are the WD Mybooks and the IOmega drives.
jsf
August 2nd, 2008
at 9:27pm
I would recommend a Simple Tech hard drive. I’m a college freshman in the fall (aka 20 days) and an external is important for two reasons. First, the reason mentioned above: backups. Second, music. It’s easier to take a hard drive to school than piles of CDs. *nod*
Using the Briefcase Feature to Backup ~ DogReader
August 3rd, 2008
at 10:10am
[...] to use for academics and not just for gaming, music and Facebook / MySpace. The importance of doing a routine backup of school material has been emphasized previously and this is an easy way to do routine [...]