I Hate Hard Drives

By Author: monikacis
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Hate's a strong word, I know. So is despise, and loathe and abhor. Hates the shortest of the bunch, so I'll keep using it.
I hate hard drives. Why? Their fragility. I don't mean delicately beautifully fragile like a butterfly or a glass sculpture. I mean ugly, crappy fragile.‘Way too easy to give up the ghost' fragile!
I speak of my despicably departed PC laptop's hard drive.It took many irreplaceable family photos and single copies of some favourite e-books and software with it.
Why didn't you back it all up, dumbass? You might well ask that. And I did.On a 500gig hard drive which then threw a wobbly and wiped out two years of data. The same two years that had existed originally on my laptop.
Still, as life would have it, hate has turned into love. One door closes and another opens.
Cloud computing. My e-books are now safely tucked away in my Audible library. My writing lives in Wordpress.My video clips are on Vimeo and my photos are on Photobucket.
But hang on, Edwin. Your stuff's still on hard drives. Much bigger ones, but the tech is essentially the same. And do you feel ...
... cool putting all of your info and work in the hands of faceless corporations?
I don't know. Are you cool with putting your money in the bank, or would you rather keep cash stashed in shoe boxes all over the house?
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