Last evening I was once again confronted with a friend’s request for a recommendation for an external hard drive. The question is a recurring event for me since my friends all know me as a Tek guy! I think my friend was a bit surprised when I told him my recommendation was to not buy another hard drive! After a bit of a pause he said, “but I am out of disk space and I need more room to store my pictures and music.” That is when I asked him if he was going to buy 2 hard drives?

“2 hard drives, I thought you just told me to not buy a another hard drive”, exclaimed my friend! Money talks and now I had my friends attention. After a brief round of questions about the value of his photographs, music, and other digital items that warranted saving on a hard drive, the reason for the 2nd hard drive was a little more obvious.

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