Here’s a question for everyone… When was the last time you backed up your computer?
Can you remember when? If you can’t then please do me and everyone a favor, pick up a cheapo hard drive and copy your existing hard drive over to it. Last week my laptop drive blew itself out, complete with an intensely scary sand-and-grinding-metal sound. It’s doubly scary because that same drive also has several years worth of pictures, source code, archived email lists, writing, art, and on and on. The punch line is that I had just run a full backup the night before – at most I’ve only thing I’ve lost is time.
Anyway, consider this a public service announcement… How much is all that stuff worth to you? A $1000 minimum to rummage through the wreckage?
Aside: AppleCare just paid for itself. I made an appointment at my local AppleStore (Glendale Galleria) to drop my laptop off and I’ll have it back in a week or so.